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[Deane] just knew how to take conflicting opinions and then sort of separate the chaff from the wheat and crystalize them into one thought that he felt would cover everybody's point of view. And he has always demonstrated that ability.
General Deane became president of the Italian Swiss Colony upon his retirement from the Army in 1946. He is a native of San Francisco. He ended his thirty years' service in the Army as head of the military mission to the Soviet Union during World War II.