U.S. ambassador. Correspondence, reports, and articles (1900–1956) regarding Hurley’s positions as national attorney for the Choctaw Nation, including enrollments, land questions, and the Mississippi Choctaw Indians; as assistant U.S. secretary of war and U.S. secretary of war; as a special presidential representative to the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Afghanistan, and the Middle East; and as U.S. ambassador to China during World War II, including correspondence regarding American and Allied efforts in the Far Eastern theater. Correspondents include Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Louis Mountbatten, Mao Tse-Tung, Chiang Kai-Shek, Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Henry A. Wallace, Joseph Stilwell, Helen Keller, and Cordell Hull, as well as officials of the diplomatic corps, such as Averell Harriman and Harry Hopkins.