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Patrick J. Hurley And China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy
Patrick J. Hurley And China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy
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On November 26, 1945, the Ambassador to China, Patrick J. Hurley, announced his resignation to the American press. In doing so, he leveled charges against the State Department and a number of its Foreign Service officers—charges which questioned the integrity of many, in their relation with what Hurley termed the “Imperialist” and communist nations in China. Those charges were the beginning of two and one-half decades of ideological crusading in America by many who developed the theory that those men charged by Hurley had been responsible for America’s “loss of China”
Hurley was sent to China in 1944 as President …