 On 7 November 1944 , General Patrick Hurley arrived in Yan 'an . Hurley had been in the CBI theater since August , as part of an agreement between Wallace and Chiang to provide a liaison for Chiang to communicate directly with Roosevelt and circumvent Stilwell . Successful in negotiating in the private sector , Hurley was sent to China to improve operations in the China theater , which he extended to uniting the Nationalists and CPC in a unified government . Hurley approached the CPC and the KMT without knowledge of either political group , and believed that their differences were no greater than those between the Republican and Democratic parties in the United States . He failed at reconciling the Nationalists and Chinese Communists and blamed Dixie Mission staff , John Service and John Paton Davies , and others . 
