\"Diplomat Accused of Being Comunist\" John Carter Vincent Signed TLS For Sale

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\"Diplomat Accused of Being Comunist\" John Carter Vincent Signed TLS:
$999.99

Up for sale a VERY RARE!  "Diplomat Accused of Being A Comunist" John Carter Vincent Signed TLS Dated 1952. This lot includes a rare copy of his speech of February 20th, 1952 in Tangiers. 

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John

Carter Vincent (August

19, 1900 – December 3, 1972) was an American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer,

and China Hand. He was forced to resign after accusations that he

was a communist. Born in Seneca, Kansas, Vincent graduated from Mercer University in 1923 and was appointed a Foreign Service Officer the same year. He then and Dalian before he became Counsellor to the US Embassy

in Chongqing in 1942. Vincent was among the China Hands who wanted to gather intelligence from and

provide material to the Communist armies, then part of the Allied coalition in

the war against Japan and ostensibly under Chiang Kai-shek's command. When Vincent and other China Hands

including John A. Wallace on a

state visit to the Soviet Union and Chongqing in June 1944, he helped to persuade Chiang to

finally grant permission for the Dixie Mission, which opened contact with the Communist base

areas. According to the New York Times, The China experts, traveling through

the areas controlled by various warlords, reported that Chiang's Nationalist

Party, the Kuomintang, was dragging its feet,

reserving its American-supplied arms for an eventual showdown with the

Communists. The old China hands predicted that in such a fight, the Communists

would win. They called instead for American pressure on Chiang to reform his

Government and direct his forces against the Japanese, in cooperation with the

Communists. "Selfish and corrupt, incapable and obstructive," were a

few of the words Mr. Service used to describe the Chiang Government in a 1944

memo to General Stilwell. Vincent and the China Hands also argued that the

Chinese Communists had their own genuine domestic roots that might trump any

ideological loyalty to the USSR, as was occurring at the time with Tito's

Yugoslavia. The defenders of the China Hands argued that it was exactly this

perspective in China policy that Nixon and Kissinger began to implement in

1972. He became Director of the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs in 1945 and

then envoy to Switzerland

in 1947 to 1951. He was diplomatic agent in Tangier 1951 to 1952. In 1951,

Vincent was attacked by US Senator Joseph McCarthy and accused of having been a member of

the Communist Party by former party activist Louis F. Budenz. Budenz believed in summer 1951 that Vincent

had been a member of the party. Bundez admitted that he had no proof but

claimed to have learned that from having overheard other party leaders, who

were discussing Hurley. They

disliked Hurley and hoped that Vincent would be his replacement. Similar

accusations were made against all the China Hands because of their allegations

of ineptitude and corruption of Chiang's regime. After having been cleared by

numerous administrative security panels of any disloyalty, in December 1952,

the Civil Service Loyalty

Review Board found reasonable doubt on Vincent's loyalty by a

margin of one vote. In 1953, Secretary John Foster Dulles requested

Vincent's resignation.[3] Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State, steadfastly

defended Vincent, just as he had done for Alger Hiss, and thought that the China Hands generally were

being unfairly and demagogically maligned for honestly conveying inconvenient

facts. Acheson tried to intervene with Dulles to save Vincent's career.

"Diplomat Accused of Being Comunist" John Carter Vincent Signed TLS Dated 1952

$999.99

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