List of Persons

Editor’s Note: The individuals identified below were principal participants in the events covered in this volume. Other officials and individuals not included in the list are identified in footnotes to the text at appropriate places. In general, individuals attending but not participating in meetings, and persons mentioned only in passing have not been identified. All titles and positions are American unless otherwise indicated. Where no dates are given, the individuals held the position throughout the period covered by this volume. Spelling and alphabetization of names follows as closely as possible the style of official publications of the countries concerned.

  • Achilles, Theodore C., Minister at the Embassy in France until May 29, 1956; Ambassador to Peru from July 24, 1956
  • Adams, Sherman, The Assistant to the President
  • Aldrich, Winthrop W., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until February 1, 1957
  • Allen, George B., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, January 24, 1955–July 26, 1956; Ambassador to Greece, October 12, 1956–November 13, 1957; appointed Director, United States Information Agency, November 1, 1957
  • Amory, Robert, Jr., Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
  • Anderson, Robert B., Deputy Secretary of Defense until August 4, 1955; Secretary of the Treasury from July 29, 1957
  • Armstrong, Willis C., Deputy Director, Office of International Trade and Resources, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, January 15, 1955–June 1, 1957; Director, Office of International Resources, Bureau of Economic Affairs, June 1, 1957–August 6, 1957; thereafter Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Baker, John C., Representative to the U.N. Economic and Social Council, 1955–1956
  • Barringer, J. Paul, Director, Office of Transport and Communications, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until July 19, 1956; thereafter Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy in Haiti
  • Beale, Wilson T.M., Jr., Officer in Charge of United Kingdom and Ireland Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State until March 24, 1955; Deputy Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, July 3, 1955–January 1, 1956; Foreign Service Inspector, January 1, 1956–September 30, 1957; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Benson, Ezra Taft, Secretary of Agriculture
  • Black, Eugene, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Boggs, Hale, Democratic Congressman from Louisiana; Chairman, Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy; Chairman, Subcommittee on Customs, Tariffs and Reciprocal Trade Organizations
  • Brown, Winthrop G., Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom until August 11, 1955; Minister–Counselor, August 12, 1955–June 1, 1957; Director, International Cooperation Administration Mission in the United Kingdom, July 1, 1955–June 1, 1957; Counselor of the Embassies in India and Nepal, June 2, 1957–September 16, 1957; thereafter Minister–Counselor at these posts
  • Brownell, Herbert, Attorney General
  • Brundage, Percival F., Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget, until 1956; Director from April 2, 1956; Member, Advisory Board on Economic Growth and Stability, Council of Economic Advisers, from 1956
  • Burgess, W. Randolph, Under Secretary of the Treasury until 1957; Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1957
  • Burns, Arthur F., Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors, 1955–1956
  • Butz, Earl L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
  • Byrd, Harry F., Democratic Senator from Virginia; Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
  • Carnahan, Albert Sidney Johnson, Democratic Congressman from Missouri; Representative to the United Nations, 1957
  • Casey, Richard G., Australian Minister of External Affairs
  • Chilson, Hatfield, Under Secretary of the Interior from 1957
  • Cooley, Victor E., Deputy Director, Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Cooper, Jere, Democratic Congressman from Tennessee until his death, December 18, 1957; Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
  • Corbett, Jack C., Director, Office of Financial and Development Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Corse, Carl D., Chief, Commercial Policy Staff, Department of State, until January 15, 1955; Chief, Trade Agreements and Treaties Division, January 15, 1955–June 1, 1957; Acting Deputy Director of the Office of International Trade, Bureau of Economic Affairs, June 1, 1957–November 3, 1957; thereafter, Advisor, Office of International Trade
  • Cullen, Paul H., Secretary, Council on Foreign Economic Policy
  • Cutler, Robert, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs until 1955; Chairman, National Security Council Planning Board, and Member, Operations Coordinating Board and Council on Foreign Economic Policy, until 1955 and in 1957
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France until January 28, 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 15, 1957
  • Dirksen, Everett M., Republican Senator from Illinois; Senate Minority Whip from 1957; Member, Senate Appropriations Committee
  • Dodge, Joseph M., Special Assistant to the President and Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, until July 10, 1956
  • Drain, Richard D., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, March 11, 1957–August 9, 1957
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Durfee, James R., Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1956–1957
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Foreign Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister until April 6, 1955; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, April 6, 1955–January 10, 1957
  • Edgerton, Major General Glen E., President, Export–Import Bank, 1955–1956; Member, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, 1955–1956
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian Foreign Minister; Chairman of the Egyptian Delegation to the United Nations; Representative at the 10th, 11th, and 12th Regular Sessions of the General Assembly
  • FitzGerald, Dennis A., Deputy Director of Operations, International Cooperation Administration
  • Flemming, Arthur S., Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, until February 1957
  • Francis, Clarence, Special Consultant to the President; Chairman, Interagency Committee on Agricultural Surplus Disposal
  • Frank, Isaiah, Deputy Director, Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until January 15, 1955; Deputy Director, Office of International Trade until June 1, 1957; thereafter Acting Director
  • George, Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia until January 3, 1957; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, until January 3, 1957; President Pro Tempore of the Senate, January 3, 1955–January 3, 1957; Special Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until his death, August 4, 1957
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary, National Security Council
  • Glendinning, C. Dillon, Deputy Director, Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury; Secretary, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems
  • Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 14, 1955–February 27, 1957; Director, Office of Defense Mobilization from March 14, 1957
  • Green, Theodore F., Democratic Senator from Rhode Island; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from January 3, 1957
  • Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Political Officer at the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany until May 5, 1955; then Attaché until September 9, 1956; Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, September 9, 1956–October 21, 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
  • Hall, Edward B., Director, Office of Trade, Investment and Monetary Affairs, Foreign Operations Administration and International Cooperation Administration, until 1956
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hanes, John W., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until April 8, 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Harlow, Bryce N., Administrative Assistant to the President
  • Harris, Walter E., Canadian Minister of Finance
  • Hauge, Gabriel, Administrative Assistant to the President until 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to the President
  • Hays, Brooks, Democratic Congressman from Arkansas; Member, House Foreign Relations Committee; Member, United States Delegation at the 10th Regular Session of the General Assembly
  • Herter, Christian A., Governor of Massachusetts until 1956; Consultant to the Secretary of State, January 14, 1957–February 21, 1957; thereafter Under Secretary of State
  • Hill, Robert C., Special Assistant for Mutual Security Affairs, Office of the Under Secretary of State, October 12, 1955–March 7, 1956; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 7, 1956–June 26, 1957; Ambassador to Mexico from July 25, 1957
  • Hoffman, Paul, Chairman of the Board, Studebaker–Packard Corporation, until 1956; Delegate at the 11th Regular Session of the General Assembly
  • Hoghland, John S., II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from June 10, 1957
  • Hollister, John B., Consultant to the Secretary of State, May 2, 1955–July 1, 1955; Director, International Cooperation Administration, July 1, 1955–August 18, 1957
  • Hoover, Herbert C., Jr., Under Secretary of State until February 2, 1957
  • Howe, Clarence D., Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce; Minister of Defense Production; Member, Imperial Privy Council
  • Hughes, Rowland R., Director, Bureau of the Budget, until April 1, 1956. Died, April 2, 1957
  • Humphrey, George, Secretary of the Treasury until July 29, 1957
  • Humphrey, Hubert H., Democratic Senator from Minnesota; Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Member, Government Operations Committee; Delegate at the 11th Regular Session of the General Assembly
  • Jackson, C.D., former Special Assistant to the President
  • Jacoby, Neil, Dean, Graduate School of Business, University of California at Los Angeles; Consultant, Rand Corporation; Member, President’s Council of Economic Advisors, until 1955; Representative on the U.N. Economic and Social Council in 1957
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until October 9, 1955; Counselor at the Embassy in Italy, October 9, 1955–December 12, 1955; thereafter Minister–Counselor
  • Johnson, Lyndon B., Democratic Senator from Texas; Minority Leader until 1955; Senate Majority Leader thereafter
  • Judd, Walter, Republican Congressman from Minnesota; Member, House Foreign Relations Committee; Member, Delegation at the 12th Regular Session of the General Assembly
  • Kalijarvi, Thorsten V., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until March 14, 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 15, 1957–September 26, 1957; Ambassador to El Salvador from December 16, 1957
  • Kendall, David W., General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury until 1956; thereafter Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
  • Knowland, William, Republican Senator from California; Senate Majority leader until January 5, 1955; thereafter Senate Minority leader; Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Kotschnig, Walter M., Director, Office of International Economic and Social Affairs, Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Department of State; Member, Coal Committee, Economic Commission for Europe, 1955; Delegate, Commission on Industry and Trade, United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, 1956
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Leddy, John M., International Economist, Office of the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, until October 3, 1955; Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, October 3, 1955–October 20, 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State until November 24, 1956; Ambassador to Japan from February 25, 1957
  • MacKay, Robert A., Deputy Representative of Canada to the United Nations; Representative on the Economic and Social Council, 1956–1957
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Minister of Defense until April 1955; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, April 6, 1955–December 20, 1955; Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 20, 1955–January 10, 1957; thereafter Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
  • Macomber, William B., Jr., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State, January 10, 1955–November 16, 1955; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, November 16, 1955–August 15, 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from October 21, 1957
  • Magnuson, Warren G., Democratic Senator from Washington; Chairman, Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
  • Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; Senate Majority Whip from 1957; Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Martin, Joseph W., Republican Congressman from Massachusetts; House Minority Leader
  • McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1, 1957
  • McClellan, Harold C., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs from 1956
  • McConnell, James A., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Agricultural Stabilization until 1956
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 7, 1956; Ambassador to Canada from May 23, 1956
  • Merrow, Chester E., Republican Congressman from New Hampshire; Delegate at the 10th Regular Session of the General Assembly; Member, House Foreign Relations Committee
  • Metzger, Stanley D., Assistant Legal Adviser for Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Minnich, L. Arthur, Jr., Assistant Staff Secretary to the President from 1956
  • Morgan, Gerald D., Special Counsel to the President
  • Morse, True D., Under Secretary of Agriculture
  • Morton, Thruston B., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations until February 29, 1956; Republican Senator from Kentucky from January 3, 1957
  • Munro, Sir Leslie, Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations; Ambassador to the United States
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Nichols, Clarence W., Deputy Director, Office of International Minerals Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until January 15, 1955; Chief, International Resources Divison, January 15, 1955–October 1, 1956; Deputy Director, Office of International Trade and Resources, October 1, 1956–March 31, 1957; Deputy Director, Office of International Resources, from June 1, 1957
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Ohly, John H., Deputy Director for Programs and Planning, International Cooperation Administration
  • Overby, Andrew N., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury until 1957
  • Pearson, Lester B., Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs; Representative at the 11th Regular Session and the 1st and 2nd Emergency Special Sessions of the General Assembly
  • Perkins, George, Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council from March 14, 1955
  • Persons, Maj. Gen. Wilton B.,USA (retired), Deputy Assistant to the President
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State until April 1, 1957
  • Potter, Margaret H., Chief, Trade Agreements Branch, Trade Agreements and Treaties Division, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until April 10, 1957; thereafter Special Assistant in the Trade Agreements and Treaties Division
  • Radius, Walter A., Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Randall, Clarence B., Special Consultant to the President; Chairman, Council on Foreign Economic Policy, from July 10, 1956
  • Rayburn, Sam, Democratic Congressman from Texas; Speaker of the House of Representatives
  • Raynor, G. Hayden, Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State, until June 19, 1955; Attaché of the Embassy in Norway, June 19, 1955–July 4, 1955; thereafter Counselor
  • Reid, Ralph W.E., Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget until 1956; Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1956
  • Robertson, Norman A., Canadian High Commissioner in the United Kingdom until May 1957; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Robinson, Hamlin, Special Assistant in the Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Rockefeller, Nelson, Special Assistant to the President until December 31, 1955; Chairman, President’s Advisory Committee on Government Organization; Vice Chairman (representing the President), Operations Coordinating Board, 1955–1956
  • Rose, H. Chapman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury until 1956; Member, Air Coordinating Committee, until 1956
  • Rountree, William M., Counselor of the Embassy in Iran with personal rank of Minister until October 9, 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, October 9, 1955–July 26, 1956; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
  • Rubottom, Roy R., Jr., Counselor of the Embassy in Spain and Deputy Chief of the U.S. Operations Mission until April 24, 1955; Economic Counselor and Director of the Mission, April 24, 1955–May 16, 1956; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter–American Affairs, May 16, 1956–September 14, 1956; Acting Assistant Secretary, September 16, 1956–June 18, 1957; Assistant Secretary thereafter
  • Russell, Richard B., Democratic Senator from Georgia; second ranking Democrat, Senate Appropriations Committee
  • Saltonstall, Leverett, Republican Senator from Massachusetts; second ranking Republican, Senate Appropriations Committee
  • Satterthwaite, Livingston, Counselor of the Embassy in France until March 23, 1955; Deputy Executive Secretary, Operations Coordinating Board, March 23, 1955–January 15, 1956; Special Assistant, Operations Coordinating Board, January 15, 1956–August 1, 1956; Acting Director, Office of Transport and Communications Policy, Department of State, August 1, 1956–September 23, 1956; thereafter Director
  • Schaefer, Walter, Special Assistant to the Director of Finance, International Cooperation Administration, from January 3, 1956
  • Scheyven, Raymond, Chairman, Committee of Experts, Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development, 1955
  • Seaton, Fred A., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs until February 1955; Administrative Assistant to the President, February 1955–June 1955; Deputy Assistant to the President, June 1955–May 28, 1956; thereafter Secretary of the Interior
  • Sharp, Mitchell W., Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for Trade and Commerce
  • Siefkin, Forest D., Vice President and General Counsel, International Harvester Corporation, until 1957; Consultant to the Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy from July 10, 1956
  • Smith, Alexander, Republican Senator from New Jersey; second ranking Republican, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Smith, Dan T., Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury for Tax and Debt Analysis until 1955; Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Tax Policy, 1956–1957; thereafter Deputy to the Secretary of the Treasury in Charge of Tax Policy
  • Smith, Marshall, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs from 1956
  • Southard, Frank A., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; Member, Board of Executive Directors, International Monetary fund
  • Sprague, Mansfield D., General Counsel, Department of Defense, 1956–1957
  • Staats, Elmer B., Executive Officer, Operations Coordinating Board
  • Stambaugh, Lynn U., First Vice–President and Vice–Chairman, Export–Import Bank
  • Stassen, Harold, Director, Foreign Operations Administration, until June 30, 1955; Chairman, Foreign Operations Council, until June 30, 1955; Special Assistant to the President from March 22, 1955; Deputy Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Commission from August 2, 1955; Member, National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Problems, 1955
  • Stibravy, William J., Special Assistant to the Director, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Taber, John, Republican Congressman from New York; ranking Republican, House Appropriations Committee
  • Thibodeaux, Ben H., Director, Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State, until January 15, 1955; Director, Office of International Trade and Resources, January 15, 1955–March 24, 1957; Economic Counselor of the Embassy in Japan and Director, U.S. Operations Mission, March 24, 1957–May 27, 1957; thereafter Minister–Counselor of Economic Affairs
  • Timmerman, George Ball, Jr., Governor of South Carolina
  • Timmons, Benson E.K., III, First Secretary of the Embassy in France and Director, U.S. Operations Mission, until July 8, 1955; Minister for Economic Affairs and Counselor with Personal Rank of Minister, July 8, 1955–September 13, 1955; thereafter Director, Office of European Regional Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Turnage, William V., Deputy Director, Office of International Financial and Development Affairs, Bureau of Economic Affairs, Department of State
  • Vorys, John M., Republican Congressman from Ohio; second ranking member of the House Foreign Relations Committee; Regent of the Smithsonian Institute
  • Waugh, Samuel C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 25, 1955; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August 26, 1955–October 1, 1955; President of the Export–Import Bank from October 4, 1955
  • Weeks, Sinclair, Secretary of Commerce
  • White, E. Wyndham, Executive Secretary of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Chief of Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, until September 6, 1955; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Wiley, Alexander, Republican Senator from Wisconsin; ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Wilgress, L. Dana, Chairman of the Contracting Parties to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1955; Canadian Under Secretary of State for External Affairs; Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
  • Willis, George H., Director, Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury; Member, Committee for Reciprocity Information
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 8, 1957
  • Woodward, Robert F., Ambassador to Costa Rica
  • Zakharov, Aleksey V., Soviet Alternate Representative on the United Nations Economic and Social Council, 1955–1956; Representative, 1957; Deputy Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956