ARTHUR H. DEAN, ENVOY TO KOREA TALKS, DIES AT 89

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• Publication Date: December 1, 1987
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13TH STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format.
Copyright (c) 1987 The New York Times Company;
The New York Times
December 1, 1987, Tuesday, Late City Final Edition
SECTION: Section D; Page 28, Column 1; Foreign Desk
LENGTH: 1397 words
HEADLINE: Arthur H. Dean, Envoy to Korea Talks, Dies at 89
BYLINE: By ALBIN KREBS
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Arthur H. Dean, the lawyer-diplomat who tried to arrange a post-Korean War
peace conference with the Chinese at the request of President Eisenhower in
1953, and who served as a negotiator on disarmament and other matters for three
other Presidents, died of pneumonia yesterday at the Community Hospital at Glen
Cove, L. I. He was 89 years old and lived in Oyster Bay, L. I. Mr. Dean
succeeded John Faster Dulles as senior partner in the prestigious New York law
firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1949, when Mr. Dulles was elected a United States
Senator. He had joined the firm in 1923 after graduation from Cornell Law
School.
While a young partner in 1933, Mr. Dean had his first taste of Government
service. At the request of President Roosevelt, he worked on the Department of
Commerce committee that recommended the creation of the Securities and Exchange
Commission and the passage of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. He later had
a hand in drafting the Bankruptcy Act of 1938, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
and the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Urged Johnson to End Bombing
Over more than three decades, Mr. Dean served as a negotiator and adviser to
Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He was credited with helping to
persuade Lyndon B. Johnson to stop the bombing of North Vietnam in 1968 and to
not seek re-election.
In the early 1960's, Mr. Dean served as chief of the delegation to the talks
that eventually produced a partial nuclear test-ban treaty in 1963, which was
worked out by W. Averell Harriman.
But the task that won Mr. Dean international renown as a stubbornly patient
and courageous negotiator was probably one of the dreariest, most vexing and
wearisome jobs in modern diplomatic history - that of negotiating with the
Chinese and North Koreans at Panmunjom, in the demilitarized zone of Korea, for
seven weeks in 1953.
President Eisenhower, at the behest of Mr. Dulles, Mr. Dean's old law firm
mentor and by then Secretary of State, had appointed Mr. Dean a Special Deputy
Secretary of State, with the rank of ambassador. He was given the difficult
assignment, an behalf of the United States and the 16 other nations whose troops
had formed the United Nations Command, of conducting post-armistice talks with
the Communist side at Panmunjom.
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Chief Delegate at Panmunjom
Mr. Dean served as chief representative for the United Nations Command, which
had been formed to aid South Korea when it was invaded in 1950 by Communist
forces from North Korea, later to be joined by Chinese troops. He hoped to
negotiate the release of prisoners and to set up a political conference
envisaged by the cease-fire agreement.
On Sept. 15, 1953, in a tent placed across the 38th parallel of latitude in
the freezing mountains of the central Korean peninsula, the endless and,
ultimately, fruitless discussions began. Mr. Dean won instant admiration for his
characteristic optimism that success would be achieved. Against the stern-faced
Communists he was by turns reasonable, stormy, plaintive and cold.
''He was like pom-poms, firing off verbal rockets,'' a colleague at Panmunjom
said. ''He used every courtroom technique he Knew.'' But for the most part, Mr.
Dean's verbal rockets failed to have any effect on the imperturbable negotiators
opposite him at the conference table. At one point, Mr. Dean cried out in
frustration: ''Don't you listen to me? Don't you hear what I say?'
Mr. Dean became convinced the Communist side did not, at that time, want a
permanent peace. After they rejected his offer that a political conference be
held within 48 days after the preliminary conference ended, the talks were
broken off and he returned to the United States.
In a report to the American people Mr. Dean said that the ''Chines e
Communists are determined to keep North Korea politically and economically
integrated into their own economy. They believe that at a long drawn-out
conference the American negotiators will be forced by public opinion to give in
in order to have a successful conference.''
Praise From Eisenhower
President Eisenhower, who lavishly praised him for his efforts at Panmunjom,
was to call on him for further service in years to come.
Arthur Hobson Dean, the son of William Cameron Dean, a Cornell Law School
professor, and the former Maud Egan, was born in Ithaca, N. Y. on Oct. 16, 1898.
He went to Ithaca High School and then to Cornell University, where he earned
expenses by working as a hotel night clerk and a bank bookkeeper. He left the
university in World War I and served in the Navy, then returned to Cornell to
complete his undergraduate studies in 1921. At Cornell Law School he was
managing editor of the Law Quarterly and received his law degree in 1923.
Admitted to the bar that same year, he joined Sullivan & Cromwell, a firm that
specialized in international law.
Work on Overseas Transactions
His skills as a negotiator developed from the start of his legal career, when
he was chosen by Mr. Dulles to assist in negotiations in Paris, Berlin, Rome,
Milan and London an the security issues and business transactions that followed
the Dawes Plan loans to alleviate Germany's financial plight. In 1927 and 1928
he went to Japan to work out the first open-end mortgage in that country, a $9
billion bond issue of the Nippon Power Company, which was offered to the
American public.
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That triumph won the young lawyer a full partnership in Sullivan & Cromwell
in 1929. As an ''office lawyer,'' he advised public utilities, railroads,
hospitals, and private businesses an a wide variety of problems. As a trial
lawyer, Mr. Dean's best-known litigation was the Investment Bankers Act
antitrust case, U. S. vs. Morgan, in which he acted as lead counsel for the 17
defendants. For many years he was chief counsel to Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey, now Exxon.
Law of the Sea Delegate
Mr. Dean served President Eisenhower in 1958 and 1960 as chief of delegation
at an 88-nation conference on the Law of the Sea. He led the fight against an
effort by Soviet-bloc and other nations to establish what he considered an
excessive increase in the limit of the internationally recognized territorial
sea.
Although the United States compromise proposal of a six-mile limit failed to
gain approval, a number of agreements were reached on fisheries, the high seas,
the continental shelf, and the right of landlocked countries to have access to
the sea.
President Kennedy appointed Mr. Dean chief of the U. S. delegation to the
nuclear test ban negotiations and the 18-nation disarmament conference at Geneva
in 1961 and 1962. The test-ban negotiations led to the signing of a partial
nuclear test ban treaty in Moscow on Aug. 5, 1963.
Mr. Dean, a Republican, was called on by another Democrat, President Johnson,
to become founding co-chairman of the Lawyers Committee for Equal Rights Under
the Law, a watchdog body that oversaw compliance with the Civil Rights Act of
1965. He also counseled President Johnson in his darkest days of agonizing over
Vietnam.
Philanthropist and Flower Lover
Mr. Dean, who sat on the boards of dozens of companies and philanthropic
organizations and was board chairman of Cornell University for 10 years, was
married in 1932 to the former Mary Talbott Clark Marden. The couple collected in
many areas, including Americana and rare books. They made it possible for
Cornell to obtain the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Collection, a vast archive
of manunscripts and printed material dealing with the public career of the
Marquis de Lafayette, who served as one of Washington's generals in the
Revolutionary War.
An avid horticulturist and gardener, Mr. Dean made his estate in Oyster Bay a
flower-lover's showplace. At Siasconcet, on Nantucket, where the Deans
maintained a summer home, he created a wildlife sanctuary around Sesachacha
Pond. The Deans' book-lined Manhattan apartment abounded with plants and
flowers.
Mr. Dean, who was senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell for 23 years, retired
as a partner in 1976.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by their son, Nicholas B.M. Dean, of
North Edgecomb, Me.; their daughter, Patricia D. Manolis, of Brookville, L. I.;
eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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A memorial service will be held at 11 A.M. Thursday at St. John's Episcopal
Church in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.
GRAPHIC: Photo of Arthur H. Dean (Blackstone-Shelbourne, 1953)
TYPE: Obituary
SUBJECT: DEATHS; BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
NAME: DEAN, ARTHUR H; KREBS, ALBIN
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