Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurley's antipathy to John Carter Vincent goes back to China. Vincent had been Counselor of Embassy in Chungking under Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss. Then Vincent had taken over State's China desk. In Hurley's view Vincent and Gauss had no confidence in Chiang or in his ability to keep China afloat...
General Hurley had named no names, but Washington knew the men he refrained from naming. His main target was quiet John Carter Vincent, head of State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and thus Secretary Byrnes's most influential adviser on China matters. Vincent had been the go-slow opponent of the War and Navy Secretaries in their efforts to frame a stronger policy in support of Chiang Kaishek...
This supported the stand of Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. About to retire, he pulled no punches in demanding a clear-cut U.S. world policy: the place to start, McCloy said, was China. The State Department's Far Eastern Division, headed by John Carter Vincent, still wanted to go slow. They insisted that U.S. intervention would not solve China's basic problem...
Foreign Affairs continued in the hands of Popular Republican Georges Bidault. A "brain trust" of four Ministers of State included Communist Maurice Thorez, Socialist Vincent Auriol, Popular Republican Francisque Gay, Rightist Louis Jacquinot...
Coach Jaakko Mikkola's victory-starved harriers came through on Saturday to defeat the Kings Point cross-country aggregation 20 to 35. Captain Vincent Moriarty captured first to lead his team to its first win of the season...