Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr.
Richard Cunningham Patterson Jr. (1886–1966) was an American diplomat.
Patterson was the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia (1944–1946), Guatemala (1948–1951), and U.S. Minister to Switzerland (1951–53). While ambassador to Guatemala, he popularized the term duck test.[1]
Patterson Affair
Amid charges in Guatemala that Patterson was intervening in Guatemala's internal affairs, and rumors that Patterson's life was in danger, Patterson hurriedly departed for the United States on March 28, 1950.[2] His mission in Guatemala was terminated on April 24, 1951, when a new ambassador, Rudolf E. Schoenfeld, presented his credentials.[3]
References
- ^ Rabe, Stephen G. (2005). U.S. intervention in British Guiana : a Cold War story ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 46. ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.
- ^ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1950, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1951, The United Nations; The Western Hemisphere, Volume II - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Note 5. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
External links
- http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/rcpbio3.html
- The Richard Cunningham Papers at the Truman Library
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