Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-11
Senators Examining
Documents Cited by
Hurley in Charges
BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD

The much-discussed documents
which Maj. Gen. Patrick j. Hurley
says support his charge that admin.
stration policy in China was sabo.
tagged by State Department "caree,
men" were being examined by the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit.
tee today in an executive session.
The committee invited Gen. Hur-
ley to testify today as to his own
knowledge of the report which
Chairman Connally of the committee
has obtained from the State De-
partment for confidential considera.
ton, but the former Ambassador
informed the committee clerk thai
he would wait at home, subject to
call
The documents, according to the
previous testimony of Gen. Hurley
are reports sent to Washington by
two men who were stationed in
Chumgking last year, but are now
on Gen. MacArthur's staff in Tokyo
John S. Service and George Atche-
son, jr.
Urged Aid to Communists.
Gen. Hurley charges that Mr.
Atcheson made a report to Wash
ington urging that the Chinese Com
munist be given American lease
lend arms and that Mr.. Service
submitted a report recommending
that the central government OF
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek be
allowed to fall.
At an open committee hearing
yesterday, Chairman Connally in
troduced a surprise witness-Theo-
dore White, a former war CORE
spondent in Chungking for Time
magazine-who said that he ap-
peared on behalf of the group OF
newspapermen who had served there
during the war and knew both Mr.
Service and Mr.. Atcheson we'll. He
denied that either had "sabotaged'
American policy in China, adding
that he considered them loyal serv-
ants of the United States.
Mr.. White said that he had Of
fered to appear before the commit
tee because he did not want to see
the career men" slandered falsely
Dean Acheson Is Heard.
Earlier the committee had heard
both Gen. Hurley and Undersecre-
tary of State Dean Acheson, whom
Gen. Hurley has accused of wreck
ing" American policy in Iran.
The general testified that he had
submitted a memorandum to the
President and State Department in
which he opposed the distribution
Of lease-lend supplies in Iran by
the United Kingdom Commercial
Corp. and suggesting that the United
States send its own representatives
there.
He said President Roosevelt wrote
letter to the State Department on
January II, 1914, indorsing his sug.
gestion, but that it was opposed by
Mr.. Acheson, who was then Assis.
tant Secretary of State in charge oil
economic affairs. Later he and Mr.
Acheson had heated controversy
over the matter.
Phrase Irritated General.
Mr.. Acheson testified that his
argument with Gen. Hurley resulted
mainly from memorandum drawn
up by an unnamed assistant, making
observations on the generals report
in which certain phrase" wa:
used which annoyed the envoy. That
it was learned later, was "messianit
globalony"
Vigorously denying that he hae
wrecked" the administration pol.
icy in Iran, the Undersecretary sale
Gen. Hurley had completely mis-.
understood American lease-lend pol
icy there. Military lease-lend good
there, he added, were distributed b,
the American Army and the British
firm handled only small amounts o.
consumer goods because it was i'm
practical to send an American mis-.
sion there to do the job. e.
Mr.. Acheson said that Gen. Hur.
ley's charge that he had FOLLOWED
'imperialistic" policies in the Neal
Il East was "utterly fantastic"