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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Pat landed in China last September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: General Pat | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...members: Pat O'Brien, Jimmy Dodd, Ruth Carrell, Harry Brown, Betty Yeaton, Jinx Falkenburg. They also played the B-29 bases around Chengtu, won G.I. praise for taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE ASIA: Our Bases Are Missing | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Chungking's and Chiang's political instability, buzzed back to Washington to pour his frightening reports into the Presidential ear. Then there were President Roosevelt's personal representatives, Donald Nelson, all new to China and China to him, and Major General Patrick Hurley. Worldly, well-tailored Pat Hurley stopped off in Moscow to garner Premier Molotov's assurances that Russia has no designs on China, stopped off in Chungking to lecture Chiang Kai-shek on the urgent need to cooperate with Russia and the Chinese Communists. The Generalissimo, however, believed that his Government's most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Crisis | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...chief, the Generalissimo. With him came another American soldier. Suave, worldly Major General Patrick Hurley, emissary of the White House in high diplomatic affairs, settled down in Chungking to confer with the Generalissimo and work out a new solution for the Asia Command. The conferences proceeded. Pat Hurley was hopeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The General Goes Home | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds v. Planes | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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