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740.0011 E. W./6–1545

No. 68
The Acting Secretary of State to the President’s Naval Aide (Vardaman)

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[Washington,] June 15, 1945.

Dear Captain Vardaman: In accordance with your request, I append hereto a memorandum for the President, together with a tentative list of State Department personnel, whose presence at the forthcoming meeting of heads of government will, we believe, be helpful to the President.

Faithfully yours,

Joseph C. Grew
[Enclosure]

The Acting Secretary of State to the President

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[Washington,] June 15, 1945.

Memorandum for the President

In accordance with your request I attach a tentative suggested list of State Department personnel whose presence at your forthcoming meeting with the heads of government will, we believe, be helpful to you. This tentative list has been approved by Secretary Stettinius at San Francisco.

Joseph C. Grew
[Subenclosure]
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Suggested List of State Department Personnel To Assist the President at the Forthcoming Meeting of Heads of Government

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Number
(1) The Secretary of State
Special Assistant (Mr. Robert Lynch)
Assistants: (Mr. Charles Noyes, Mr. Hathaway Watson, Mr. Wilder Foote)
Military Aide (Major Lloyd Tyson)1 6
(2) Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. William L. Clayton) 1
(3) Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern, and African Affairs (Mr. James Clement Dunn)
and/or
Director, Office of European Affairs (Mr. H. Freeman Matthews) 2
(4) The Department’s White House Liaison Officer—Russian Specialist and Interpreter (Mr. Charles E. Bohlen) Second Russian Specialist and Interpreter (Mr. Llewellyn Thompson or Mr. Edward Page) 2
(5) Director, Office of Financial and Development Policy—For general financial and economic questions—(Mr. Emilio Collado) 1
(6) Chief, Division of Central European Affairs—German Political Questions (Mr. James W. Riddleberger) 1
(7) German Economic Specialist—Reparations (Mr. Emile Despres) 1
(8) Chief, Division of Southern European Affairs2—Balkan and Italian Questions (Mr. Cavendish W. Cannon) 1
(9) Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs—For Persian, Turkish, Levant and Palestine Questions (Mr. George V. Allen) 1
(10) Chief, Division of Chinese Affairs—(Mr. John Carter Vincent) 1
(11) Special Assistant to Mr. Dunn on Japanese Affairs—(Mr. Eugene Dooman) 1
(12) Adviser on European Advisory Commission—(Mr. Philip Mosely) (Mr. Mosely likewise is a Russian and German Specialist) 1
(13) Secretary General of Delegation (Mr. Charles Yost) 1
(14) Secretarial and stenographic staff  6
Total 26

  1. Attached to the covering letter to Vardaman is the following manuscript note by Matthews: “I cleared this with San Francisco by phone this morning. The Secretary’s Assistants were added at the Secretary’s request.”

    Lynch, Noyes, Watson, and Tyson, however, were not actually included in the United States Delegation since the incoming Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, who took office on July 3, appointed a number of new officials in his immediate office who were added to the Delegation list. Cf. document No. 118.

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  2. So listed, although Cannon had been assigned as First Secretary at Lisbon effective April 18.↩