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...Nationalist leaders feel that all is not yet lost. Nixon's trip is still a long way off, and Washington insists that no deals have been made with Peking. In a personal letter to Chiang, Nixon reasserted that the U.S. is not going to abandon its longtime friend. That hope is not much to cling to, but it is all the Nationalist Chinese have...
Both men were born in China to U.S. missionaries shortly before the 1911 revolution toppled the Manchu dynasty. Both were educated partly in China and spoke the language fluently. By 1944 they were young old China hands stationed in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime refugee capital, Chungking, as political officers on the staff of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who was commander of U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The pair chafed at the frustrating restraints imposed on "Vinegar Joe" by the generalissimo and his Nationalist regime, which they believed was fatally weak...
Fuzzing the Issues. That was a difficult view for the U.S. to accept, for Chiang was a genuine hero, the man who had rallied his country against the Japanese invasion. Increasingly, however, his war effort bogged down, partly because of the challenge to his rule from Mao Tse-tung and the Communists. Chiang felt that he was inadequately supported by the U.S. A group of U.S. military and diplomatic observers arrived at Communist headquarters in Yenan in July 1944. As the senior diplomat present, Service talked most with Mao and his top aides...
...China that he expected to influence or control must be close friends. Mao's Communists, Service decided, must be reckoned with. Davies later replaced Service in Yenan and reached the same conclusion: "The Communists are in China to stay. And China's destiny is not Chiang's but theirs...
...diplomats' views, relayed to Washington, clashed with America's deep pro-Chiang sympathies, and especially with the sentiments of Major General Patrick J. Hurley, U.S. ambassador to Chungking. Hurley accused the old China hands of undermining his authority, and had Service recalled. Davies was allowed to stay on longer. After V-J Day, Hurley resigned and, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, accused Service and Davies among others of disloyalty to the U.S., though he never went so far as to accuse them of being Communists...