740.0011 E.
W./6–1545
No. 68
The Acting Secretary of
State to the President’s Naval Aide (
Vardaman
)
confidential
[
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,
[Enclosure]
The Acting Secretary of
State to the President
confidential
[
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.
[Subenclosure]
confidential
Suggested List of State Department Personnel To
Assist the President at the Forthcoming Meeting of Heads of
Government
|
|
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 |
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| (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 |
