REPLY TO HURLEY
U.S. FOREIGN SERVICE
Rec. 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. On the information already presented there was no evidence to .support Major-General P. J. Hurley's charge of disloyalty to a superior officer by Messrs. Atcheson or Service while in China, said the Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, when testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Brynes added that while every man in the Foreign Service must administer the Government's declared policy he should not hesitate to express his views when 'he believed changed conditions justified this.
Mr. Byrnes challenged General Hurley's allegation that he had been unable to get a public statement from President Truman, Mr. Byrnes, or ranking officials on American policy towards China. There had been no oral or written request for it. Mr. Byrnes defended the propriety of communications from Messrs. Atcheson and Service regarding readjustments of policy and also the channels used by them. He repeated the United States support for President Chiang Kai-shek, but added -that he also believed it must bo broadened to include representatives of those large, well-organised groups who were now without a-voice in the government of China. The United States' influence should be used to encourage mutual concessions by both sides^ j
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 139, 10 December 1945, Page 7
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