Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his 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...
...That Atcheson, as Chargé d'Affaires in Hurley's absence from Chungking, had recommended a policy of furnishing Lend-Lease arms to the Chinese Communists. That, said Pat Hurley, would have made the collapse of Chiang's Government inevitable...
...Pat Hurley said that he had no quarrel with Secretary Byrnes. But if hearings should develop substantial evidence of Hurley's charge that U.S. policy has been sabotaged within the Department, Jimmy Byrnes could not escape sharp criticism...
...that, Pat Hurley blew up. He released his statement to newsmen. The statement was a violent but confused attack on a policy which, he said, had let the U.S. be "sucked into a power bloc on the side of colonial imperialism." But his two-by-four whacked hard and specifically on what he called "hydra-headed direction and confusion" in the State Department. Some of the whacks...
Patrick Hurley's resignation rampage served another purpose. It turned the beam of public interest on the State Department-and on one of its dustier aspects. As many besides Pat Hurley had long known: 1) on many points of foreign relations, particularly with China, the Department is as divided as China itself; 2) the day-to-day direction and implementation of policy is sometimes in the hands of men opposed...