Patrick Dean

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Patrick Dean (left) in conversation with US President Lyndon B. Johnson (1965)

Sir Patrick Henry Dean , GCMG (born March 16, 1909 in Berlin , † November 5, 1994 in Kingston upon Thames , Surrey ) was a British diplomat who was, among other things, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and from 1960 to 1964 Was ambassador to the United States from 1965 to 1969 .

Life

Patrick Henry Dean, son of the professor of pathology Henry Roy Dean and his wife Irene Wilson, began studying law at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge after attending the renowned rugby school founded in 1567 . After graduating and being admitted to the Bar ( Inns of Court ) from Lincoln's Inn , he was briefly as a lawyer ( Barrister ) operates. He then entered the diplomatic service (HM Diplomatic Service) Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Office ) and found in the following years many different uses of foreign missions and the Foreign Ministry. He was an advisor to Secretary of State Anthony Eden during Operation Keelhaul , during which between 1943 and 1947 around two and a half million people from the Soviet Union were sent back there by the British and the Americans, often against their will a forced repatriation . Many of these people were killed, by executions or even by suicide. On June 24, 1944, he declared:

"In due course all those with whom the Soviet authorities desire to deal must [...] be handed over to them, and we are not concerned with the fact that they may be shot or otherwise more harshly dealt [...]."
"In due course all those that the Soviet authorities want to deal with will be turned over to them, and we cannot concern ourselves with the fact whether they are shot or otherwise badly treated."

The State Department tried to suppress news of these suicides as, according to Patrick Dean, "could potentially cause political problems [in Britain]". British officers transferring prisoners to Soviet ports such as Murmansk and Odessa witnessed how NKVD execution squads shot people leaving the ships within earshot. Around 1.5 million former prisoners of war were sent to prison camps after their return.

After the end of World War II was Dean from 1946 to 1949 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of Unit for Germany Policy (Head of the German Political Department, Foreign Office) . For his services there he was named Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1947 . Afterwards he was first counselor in 1949 and then from 1950 to 1952 envoy at the embassy in Italy . After he was Senior Civilian Instructor at Imperial Defense College in London from 1952 to 1953, he subsequently served in the Foreign Ministry from 1953 to 1956 as Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Defense and Intelligence)) . He then held the post of Deputy Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Defense) in the State Department from 1956 to 1960 . During this use he was knighted on June 13, 1957 as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG), so that from now on he carried the suffix "Sir".

As the successor to Pierson John Dixon , Sir Patrick Dean took over the post of Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations in 1960 and held it until 1964, when Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, succeeded him there. During this time he was also raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) on June 8, 1963 . Most recently he replaced David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, as Ambassador to the United States in 1965 and remained in this position until he left the diplomatic service in 1969, after which John Freeman was his successor.

After his retirement, Dean was director of the construction company Taylor Woodrow from 1969 to 1986 and, at the same time, from 1969 to 1993 international advisor to the financial services company American Express . He was also a consultant for the construction company Taylor Woodrow from 1986 to 1993 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Charles Lutton: Review of the book The Secret Betrayal by Nikolai Tolstoy. 1978. In: The Journal of Historical Review. Vol. 1, 1980, No. 4, p. 371.
  2. ↑ Repatriation - The Dark Side of World War II ( Memento of October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Paul Sheehan: Patriots ignore greatest brutality . In: The Sydney Morning Herald , August 13, 2007. 
  4. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 954
  5. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 747
  6. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 745
  7. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 1011
  8. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 926
  9. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 916
  10. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  11. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 896
  12. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  13. ↑ A DIRECTORY OF BRITISH DIPLOMATS , p. 856
personal data
SURNAME Dean, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dean, Patrick Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat and administrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1994
Place of death Kingston upon Thames , Surrey