Patrick J. Hurley and American Foreign Policy

368 Pages·1973·9.001 MB·English

by  Russell D. Buhite

Patrick J. Hurley and
American Foreign Policy

J.
Patrick Hurley and
American Foreign Policy
RUSSELL D. BUHITE
Cornell University Press
ITHACA AND LONDON
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Contents
Preface xi
I. Formative Years i
IL Soldier, Businessman, and Politician 30
III. Philippine Independence 62
IV. Saving Sinclair’s Chestnuts: Hurley and the
Mexican Oil Expropriation 82
V. Itinerant Envoy: Hurley in the Southwest
Pacific, Russia, and the Middle East 100
VI. The Recall of General Stilwell 134
VII. The Hopeful Broker: Negotiations in China,
October 1944 to February 1945 162
VIH. Consultation in Washington 188
IX. The CCP, the Kuomintang, and the Russians 210
X. Hurley, the Far East, and European Colonialism 239
XI. Resignation 253
XII. Politics of Frustration and Revenge 282
XIII. An Appraisal 305
Bibliography 325
Index 337

Illustrations
(All photographs are from the Western History Collections, Uni­
versity of Oklahoma Library, Norman, Oklahoma.)
following page 176
1. Secretary and Mrs. Hurley, New York, December 13, 1930
2. Meeting to consider Philippine independence, September 1,
1931
3. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, General Hurley, and Secretary of
State Cordell Hull, Washington, D.C., August 1942
4. General Joseph W. Stilwell and General Hurley, Chungking,
November 12, 1943
5. General Chu Teh, General Hurley, and Mao Tse-tung, Yenan,
November 7, 1944
6. T. V. Soong, General Albert C. Wedemeyer, Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-shek, and General Hurley, November 1944
7. Mao s chief of staff, Mao Tse-tung, Lin Tsu-han, General Hur­
ley, General Chu Teh, Chou En-lai, and Col. David Barrett,
Yenan, November 7, 1944
8. General Hurley, Chungking, 1945