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Archer Kent Blood (March 20, 1923 – September 3, 2004) was an American career diplomat and academic. He served as the last American Consul General to Dhaka, Bangladesh (East Pakistan at the time). [2] He is famous for sending the strongly worded "Blood Telegram" protesting against the atrocities committed in the Bangladesh Liberation War. [3]
The Cruel Birth of Bangladesh: Memoirs of an American Diplomat is American diplomat Archer Blood's account of the emergence of Bangladesh, published by University Press Limited in 2002.
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is a 2013 book by American journalist and academic Gary J. Bass [1] about The Blood telegram, a state department dissent memo on American policy during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide sent by Archer Blood the American Consul General to Dhaka, East Pakistan.
A 1971 telegram sent by diplomat Archer Blood, decrying the U.S. failure to intervene in genocide by the Pakistani army in Bangladesh. The Dissent Channel is a messaging framework open to Foreign Service Officers and other U.S. citizens employed by the United States Department of State and Agency for International Development (USAID), [a] through which they are invited to express constructive ...
Archer K. Blood, American diplomat wrote in the Blood Telegram addressing Richard Nixon administration's disregard for the situation: "with support of the Pak military, non-Bengali Muslims are systematically attacking poor people's quarters and murdering Bengalis and Hindus." [67] [68]
Kissinger sneered at people who "bleed" for "the dying Bengalis" and ignored the first telegram from the U.S. consul general in East Pakistan, Archer K. Blood, and 20 members of his staff, which informed the U.S. that their allies West Pakistan were undertaking, in Blood's words, "a selective genocide" targeting the Bengali intelligentsia ...
Blood is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Aretas Blood (1816–1897), American railroad innovator; Archer Blood (1923–2004), American diplomat; Benjamin Paul Blood (1832–1919), American philosopher and poet; Ben Blood (1989), American professional ice hockey player; Bindon Blood (1842–1940), British military commander
The part of the article that is actually about Archer Blood is fine. I don't see a need for cleanup. But the second part of the page that is about Richard Sklar is off-topic! It needs to have a separate page. I don't see what this is doing in the Archer Blood page! On Blood, a couple of important pieces of information are not mentioned.