Herbert Daniel Spivack (1 October 1917 - 12 November 2004) was a career American diplomat who served in Iran, Burma, Cambodia, and Bangladesh.[1][2][3]
Herbert Daniel Spivack | |
|---|---|
| Chargé d’Affaires ad interim (Bangladesh) | |
| In office May 1972 – October 1972 | |
| President | Richard Nixon |
| Succeeded by | Daniel O. Newberry |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 1, 1917 United States |
| Died | November 12, 2004 (aged 87) San Francisco, California, United States |
| Alma mater | New York University (MA) |
Early life
editSpivack was born in October 1917. He completed his BA and MA from New York University in 1937. He completed his graduate work at Columbia University and the Pennsylvania State College. He joined the Foreign Service in 1945.[4]
Career
editSpivack was the consular officer in Tehran, Iran from 1945 to 1947. From 1947 to 1949, he was the political officer at the United States Embassy in Rangoon, Burma. From 1950 to 1954, he was the economic affairs advisor in Paris, France.[5] Spivack served as a deputy chief of mission from 1962 to 1965 in the United States Embassy in Cambodia.[6][7] He was for a brief time as the Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Embassy in Cambodia.[8] From 1965 to 1969, he was the economic consular of the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India.[5]
Spivack served as the Chargé d'Affaires(ad interim) of the Embassy of the United States, Dhaka in Bangladesh from May 1972 to October 1972.[9] The United States recognized Bangladesh as an Independent country on 5 April 1972 after the end of Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971. Spivack was the principal diplomatic officer of the United States in Dhaka and the top diplomat at the Dhaka consulate during the war. He was recalled to Washington D.C. for consultations and was asked by President Richard Nixon to convey the recognition of the United States to President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh.[10][11] On 18 May `972 the US consulate in Dhaka was upgraded to a full embassy under Spivack.[12] From 1974 to 1975, he was the U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany.[5]
Death
editSpivack died on November 12, 2004, in San Francisco, California, United States. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the San Francisco Bay.[13]
References
edit- ^ "Policy & History". U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "Ada Evening News Newspaper Archives, Mar 11, 1964". newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Bari, Mohammad Rezaul. "The Basket Case". Forum. The Daily Star. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
On January 14, 1972, while arguing for the need of early US recognition of Bangladesh in his telegram no. 158 to the US Department of State, Herbert D. Spivack, the then US consul general in Dhaka from the Pakistan era, referred to the "basket case," which by the time had already become public knowledge:
- ^ "The Foreign Service Journal, August 1949" (PDF). afsa.org. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ a b c Herz, Martin Florian; Diplomacy, Georgetown University Institute for the Study of (1986). Contacts with the Opposition. University Press of America. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8191-5071-4. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ The Vietnam War in Newsprint-1968. Terry Lukanic. 2018. p. 40. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Steinberg, S. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1963: The One-Volume Encyclopaedia of all nations. Springer. p. 879. ISBN 978-0-230-27092-3. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Rust, William J. (2016). Eisenhower and Cambodia: Diplomacy, Covert Action, and the Origins of the Second Indochina War. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 245–. ISBN 978-0-8131-6745-9. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "Herbert Daniel Spivack - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Welles, Benjamin (5 April 1972). "Bangladesh Gets U.s. Recognition, Promise of Help". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "Delta Democrat Times Newspaper Archives, Mar 27, 1972". newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ Trumbull, Robert (19 May 1972). "A Toast Drunk in Tea, and Dacca Has a U.S. Embassy". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ^ "Spivack, Herbert D." SFGate. 18 November 2004. Retrieved 1 February 2019.