John R. Deane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John R. Deane

American general

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1896

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Date of Death: 14-Jul-1982

Profession: military officer, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Major General John Russell Deane (March 18, 1896 – July 14, 1982), United States Army, served as Chief of the United States Military Mission in the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow during World War II and was an attendee at the 1943 Moscow Conference. In December 1944, Deane wrote to George C.
Marshall: "We should stop pushing ourselves on them [the Soviet authorities] and make the Soviet authorities come to us.
We should be friendly and co-operative when they do so." Gar Alperovitz wrote, "This would increase America's economic leverage," but Robert James Maddox wrote, "This hardly amounts to a recipe for coercion."Deane authored The Strange Alliance - The Story of Our Efforts at Wartime Cooperation with Russia (The Viking Press, 1947).