...an expendable general and the "indispensable" leader of China. "My opinion," Hurley wrote Roosevelt, "is that if you sustain Stilwell in this controversy...Kai-shek and possibly you will lose China with him." u On October 18, Roosevelt decided to recall Stilwell, appointing his successor Albert Wedemeyer —...

...generalissimo offered a better basis for cooperation with the United States than any other Chinese leader. 63 "My opinion is that if you sustain Stilwell in this...Kai-shek and possibly you will lose China with him," Hurley cabled Roosevelt two days later. "I respectfully recommend that you relieve General Stilwell...

...were a thief!"106 Patrick Hurley, the latest special emissary to China, warned President Roosevelt, "If you sustain Stilwell in this controversy, you...Chiang Kai-shek and possibly you will lose China with him."107 (Talk about "losing" China had surfaced; the phrase would enjoy a long history.) A bitter...

...on the situation there until the first week of June I944-105 On 13 October Hurley advised Roosevelt "that if you sustain Stilwell in this controversy you will lose Chiang Kai-shek and possibly China with him."106 The President replied on the next day with a request for Chiang's choice of a successor.107...