Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth, as a coal miner in Oklahoma, handsome, irascible Major General Patrick Jay Hurley once killed a fractious mule by bashing its head with a two-by-four. Last week Pat Hurley, his Irish blood boiling, flailed an indecisive State Department and killed an official attitude...
...swinging, Republican Pat Hurley violated every rule of diplomatic conduct and probably ended any chance he might have had to do any more diplomatic jobs for President Truman. But his public moment accomplished what many months of private urging had failed to do. He forced on Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes the issue of a resolute U.S. policy toward China, and forced a decision on it by Harry Truman...
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...
Politician Byrnes told Pat Hurley that the President wanted him to go back to China and patch things up. Hurley brought up his past experiences. The Secretary avoided the past, talked about the future. There was no talk about a basic change in U.S. policy. When Pat Hurley left, he put his letter of resignation on Jimmy Byrnes's desk. The Secretary left it there. He apparently believed that he had persuaded the Ambassador to return to Chungking...
That morning Pat Hurley read of an attack in Congress on his China mission and himself by Representative Hugh De Lacy of Washington, a leftish Democrat. It followed the pattern of many previous attacks: Hurley had been more interested in giving supplies to Chiang to fight the Communists than he was in bringing Chiang and the Communists to unity; he had committed the U.S. to armed intervention. De Lacy's conclusion: the U.S. should express regret to China that she was a house divided and withdraw its forces...