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...black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...policy is expected to be unequivocal: open, forthright cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek's National Government, serving notice on the Chinese Communists that the U S. will not be deterred from carrying out its promise to assist the Chungking Government in taking over North China and Manchuria from the Japanese...
...high, earnest voice rang with new confidence. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was sure that his Government, having survived the war itself, would overcome "the ravages, dislocations and internal disturbances" of the war's aftermath...
After ten months as U.S. Ambassador to China, 62-year-old Pat Hurley returned to the U.S. two months ago. He was browned off by what he considered to be State Department careerists' action: some of them were sabotaging his White House orders to bolster Chiang Kai-shek's Government, and to effect unity between it and the Yenan Communists. Last week, back in Washington after a rest, Pat Hurley decided on a showdown. He wrote a statement. He wrote his resignation. Then he called on Secretary Byrnes...
...Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S. commitment to do something that would actually help...