ABSTRACT
Not long after he arrived in China's wartime capital as an envoy of President Roosevelt in the fall of 1944, Major General Patrick J. Hurley asked a young Time magazine correspondent, Annalee Jacoby, 1 to help him get acquainted with high-ranking officials in the Nationalist government. Hurley, a tall, bluff, blustery Oklahoman, was in Chungking to negotiate Lend-Lease agreements and, more importantly, to find a way to get the Nationalists and the Communists to work together in prosecuting the war against the Japanese and to forge a coalition government that would end China's long civil war. Would the reporter, he asked, be willing to arrange a banquet at Hurley's house and be on hand to introduce him to his guests?
