The China Mission

by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan

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  INDEX

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  Acheson, Dean, 36, 45–47, 105, 219, 293

  comparison of Marshall to Sisyphus, 242

  as Secretary of State, 348

  on stateside contentiousness, 312

  on U.S. objective in China, 295

  on what makes greatness, 16

  Adler, Sol, 289, 429n

  Alsop, Joseph, 284

  American China Policy Association, 227, 285

  America’s Retreat from Victory (McCarthy), 353

  Anderson, Clinton, 14

  Anping ambush, 241–42, 248–49, 257–58