Telegram from Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley to Secretary of State James Byrnes
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DICLASSIFIED by authority of
NLT-149
ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS
'NATIONAL JUNE
WITH
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SERVICE"
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FR.1945 P. 1125
GOVERNY
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Initials N. Date 8673
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180702 aug 45
NCA 4609
8-18-45
URGENT AND TOP SECRET FOR THE EYES ALONE OF THE SECRETATY OF
STATE FROM HURLEY PARA DR SOONG WAS NOT IN GOOD STANDING WITDIHIS
GOVERNMENT WHEN I ARRIVED IN CHINA X P FOUND VERY FEW CHINES
E WHOLWERE WESTERN MINDED X DR SOONGS HARVARD EDUCATIONX HIS
ELEVEN YEARS BANMENG EXPERIENCE IIMTHE UBITED STATES AND LONG
OFICIAL SERVICE THERE HAS GIEN EEEEEEE HTS GUVEN HIM' AN INSIGHT
TO THE AMERICAN SITUATION THAT IS UNSURPASSED BYFANY CHINE E
I HAVR KNOWN XLON THE DARK DAYS WHEN THE COLLAPSE OF THE CHIEES
E NATIONAL GOVERNMENT WAS FREELY PREDICOED X WHEN THE CHINESE
RMIES WERE IN FULL RETREAT AND WHEN THERE WAS WHAT APPEARED
TO BE AN UNBREAKABLE DEADLOCK BETWEEN THE GENERALUSSINO AND THE
MERICAN HIGH COMMAND x I TURNED INSTINCTIVELY TO A CHINESE WHO
OULD UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS SAYING AND COULD MAKE THE GENERALIS
SINOWUNDERSTAND x CONVERSELY HEWCOULD MAKE ME U DERSTANDI
THE
GGNIRALISSIMO X THIS IS A PRELUDE THAT WILL INDICATE
MY CLOSE RELATIONS WITH DR SOONG x I NOW FEEL THAT I MUST ATTEMPTQBO
ONVEY YO YOU THE GRESLNT ATTITUDE OF DR SOONG TOWARD THE UNITED
STATES x PARA
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