Evening star., 1946-01-27
Hurley Charges Gauss
Operated in Belief
China Would COLLAPSE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 26.-Maj. Gen.
Patrick j. Hurley, former Ambas-
sador to China who resigned last
November 27 charging that certain
career" men of the State Depart
ment were frustrating the policies
OF President Truman and Secre-
tary of State Byrnes, lashed out
again at the department in a speech
here tonight before a meeting OF
the Maryland Bar Association.
Gen. Hurley declared that:
l. His predecessor in China, AM
bassador Clarence E. Gauss, be-
lieved, and operated on the assump-
ton. that the national government
Of China must collapse.
cat his hotel in Washington,
Mr.. Gauss told the Associated
Press regarding Gen. Hurley's
remarks:
c'Hurley's statement is not cor
rect. I do not care to say any,
thing more at this time.")
2. That he, Gen. Hurley, recon
mended all the changes necessary
to reverse Americas existing policy
in China" and described the new
policy of forceful support to the
central government in message
to the late President Roosevelt and
former Secretary of State Stet-
tlnius on December "a, 1914.
Policy Never Announced.
3. That although this policy was
approved by the President and Sec
retary of State it never was an
nounced publicly, a fact which en-
abled career diplomats" to claim
that the policy being pursued in
China was Gen. Hurleys policy
rather than the policy of the United
States.
4. That his, Gen. Hurley's, policy
and record in China were at last
fully Vindicated and approved both
by Secretary Byrnes' public declara-
ton Of American policy in China
and by the directive given to Gen
Marshall" who succeeded him.
Gen. Hurley complained that the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee had failed to make public the
paraphrased contents of coded Sc
cret documents which he had called
to the committees attention and
which he said proved his conten-
tions. He also said the committee
closed its hearings without giving
him an opportunity to reply to Sec
retary of State Byrnes and Under
secretary Acheson.
Tied With War Aims.
Gen. Hurley stated that the new
policy, worked out by him before
his appointment as Ambassador and
approved by the administration after
his appointment, was designed to CO.
ordinate the traditional American
policy in China with this country S
war aims.
Il was pleased" Gen. Hurley
said sarcastically, when Secretary
Byrnes appeared before the (Senate)
Foreign Relations Committee and
stated that the policy outlined in
my letter to the Secretary of State
Of December "a, 1914, had been the
American policy all along. OF
course it had not been"
Gen. Hurley continued: THE Sec
retary might have added that the
policy which he now approves was
established in time to prevent COL
lapse OF the national Government
."
Having set forth the new policy,
Gen. Hurley left China early in 1945
for consultations in Washington, he
said.
Gen. Hurley said his policy in
China was unofhcially approved by
the State Department, lover all the
opposition" after his arrival in
Washington. 1t already had been
approved by Moscow, and subse-
quently was approved by Great
Britain.
"The American State Department
was the last of the Big Three to
publicly approve the American pol
icy in China" Gen. Hurley asserted,
adding: "The public, official state
ment of the American policy and
the clear directive given to Gen.
Marshall in my opinion assure the
success of his mission The
public statement also assures that
no one can charge that the policy
is Gen. Marshall's policy. He is un-
questionably administering the pub
lie policy of the United States.
Prior to Gen. Hurley's address, a
special committee of the association
recommended that the body accept
women and young attorneys for
membership.
The association requires three
years practice before an atternoy is
eligible for membership. The COM
mittee, headed by Federal Judge
William c. Coleman, indicated that
women were eligible now for admis-
sion to the bar and should also be
admitted to the association.