The Wuhan Gang, including Joseph Stilwell, Agnes Smedley, Evans Carlson, Frank Dorn, Jack Belden, S.T. Steele, John Davies, David Barrett and more, were the core of the Americans who were to influence the American decision-making on behalf of the Chinese communists.  It was not something that could be easily explained by Hurley&#x27;s accusation in late 1945 that American government had been hijacked by  i) the imperialists (i.e., the British colonialists whom Roosevelt always suspected to have…