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...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...
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...
...Derogatory Leaks." Hurley was further incensed when he found that other career men opposed to Chiang were also placed in key department posts. Among them were portly George Atcheson Jr.,* now political adviser to General MacArthur in Tokyo, and China-born John Stewart Service, who was welcomed back to the Department after he was cleared of FBI charges that he had divulged State Department secrets (TIME, Sept. 3). Service is now Atcheson's assistant in Tokyo...
Jimmy Byrnes's approach to a China policy had been frankly tempered by U.S. political implications, and he had put down his warnings in a memorandum to President Truman. The Secretary knew that a forthright, cooperative policy toward Chiang would bring down on the Administration the wrath of 1) those who could see no good reason for keeping U.S. forces in China; 2) those "liberals" and leftists who saw the solution of the China problem not in control by Chiang, but in control by the Chinese Communists...