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Members of the Delegations to the Third Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, November 4–December 12, 1946

November 4-December 12, 1946

Editor’s Note: No complete official list of all the delegations to this session of the Council of Foreign Ministers has been found. The following listing, derived from official documentation, includes most of those persons who had a prominent role in some aspect of the Council’s activities. Identification for the members of the delegations is based upon contemporary public sources and may not be completely up-to-date for all persons.

United States Delegation

Member

  • James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State.

Deputy

  • James Clement Dunn, Assistant Secretary of State.

Special Congressional Advisers

  • Tom Connally, United States Senate.
  • Arthur H. Vandenberg, United States Senate.

Counselor

  • Benjamin V. Cohen, Counselor, Department of State.

Special Adviser on Economic Affairs

  • Willard L. Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.

Special Political Advisers

  • Charles E. Bohlen, Assistant to the Secretary of State.
  • Robert D. Murphy, United States Political Adviser for Germany.
  • H. Freeman Matthews, Director, Office of European Affairs, Department of State.

Political Advisers

  • Samuel Reber, Acting Chief, Division of Southern European Affairs, Department of State.
  • John E. Utter, Attaché, American Legation, Cairo.
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Military Advisers

  • Brigadier General Jesmond D. Balmer.
  • Brigadier General John K. Gerhart.
  • Colonel Richard G. Stilwell.
  • Captain William J. Galloway, Jr.

Naval Advisers

  • Captain Roland F. Pryce, USN.
  • Lieutenant Commander George S. Scherbatoff, USNR.
  • Lieutenant John W. Watson, USNR.

Legal Advisers

  • William W. Bishop, Jr., Assistant to the Legal Adviser, Department of State.
  • Lionel Summers, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State.

Economic Advisers

  • Covey T. Oliver, Associate Chief, Division of German and Austrian Economic Affairs, Department of State.
  • Jacques J. Reinstein, Associate Chief, Division of Financial Affairs, Department of State.
  • Henry Tasca, United States Treasury Representative, American Embassy, Rome.
  • Leonard Unger, Division of Southern European Affairs, Department of State.
  • Barbara F. Hauer, Office of Economic Security Policy, Department of State.
  • Robert W. Tufts, Division of Commercial Policy, Department of State.

Secretaries

  • Edward Page, Jr., First Secretary, American Embassy, Rome.
  • Richard Sears, Jr., Third Secretary, American Embassy, Paris.
  • Walter W. Sohl, Jr., Division of International Conferences, Department of State.

United Kingdom Delegation

Member

  • Ernest Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
    • Assistant to the United Kingdom Member
      • Pierson John Dixon, Principal Private Secretary.

Deputy

  • Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb, Counsellor, British Foreign Office.

Special Advisers

  • Oliver Charles Harvey, Deputy Under Secretary of State (Political), Foreign Office.
  • Sir William Strang, Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief of British Forces of Occupation in Germany.
  • Lieutenant General Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Commander in Chief of British Forces of Occupation in Germany.
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Political Advisers

  • Edmund Leo Hall-Patch, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
  • Christopher Frederick Ashton Warner, Assistant Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office.
  • Viscount Samuel Hood, Foreign Office.
  • James Alexander Milne Marjoribanks, Foreign Office.
  • R. D. C. McAlpine, Foreign Office.
  • C. L. Silverwood-Cope, Foreign Office.
  • John Cecil Sterndale-Bennett, Counsellor, Foreign Office.

Legal Adviser

  • Gerald Grey Fitzmaurice, Assistant Legal Adviser, Foreign Office.

Economic Advisers

  • Edwin Edwards
  • H. S. Gregory
  • J. P. B. Ross

Treasury Representatives

  • Sir David Waley, Under Secretary of State for the Treasury.
  • J. R. Culpin

Military Adviser

  • Brigadier A. Dove, War Office.

Naval Adviser

  • Captain R. G. Mackay, RN.

Air Adviser

  • Group Captain F. J. St. G. Braithwaite, Air Ministry.

French Delegation

Member

  • Georges Bidault, President of the Provisional Government and Minister for Foreign Affairs (not present for this session of the Council).

Deputy

  • Maurice Couve de Murville, Director General for Political Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Political and Economic Advisers

  • Henri Bonnet, Ambassador to the United States.
  • General of the Army Georges Catroux, Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
  • Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin, Political Adviser to the Commander in Chief of French Forces of Occupation in Germany.
  • Hervé Alphand, Director General for Economic, Financial and Technical Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Jacques Fouques-Duparc, Director, Secretariat for International Conferences, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Armand Bérard, Minister in the United States.
  • Etienne Burin des Roziers, Office of American Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Eric de Carbonnel, Deputy Director, Third Division, Office of Economic and Financial Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Jean Wolfrom, Deputy Director, Office of European Affairs (Southern Europe), Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Jean Laloy, Office of European Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Claude Lebel, Office of Technical Agreements, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • François Valery, Auditor, Accounting Office, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Emmanuel d’Harcourt, Office of European Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Legal Adviser

  • Professor André Gros, Legal Adviser for Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Naval Advisers

  • Rear Admiral Gabriel Laurent Joseph Rebuffel
  • Commander Maréchal

Military Adviser

  • Colonel Clementin

Soviet Delegation

Member

  • Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Deputy

  • Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Political and Economic Advisers and Consultants

  • Fedor Tarasovich Gusev, Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
  • Kiril Vasilyevich Novikov, Chief, Second European Division (United Kingdom), Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Semyen Pavlovich Koziryev, Chief, First European Division (Western Europe), Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Vladimir Sergeyevich Gerashchenko, Chief, Economic Affairs Division, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Amazasp Avakimovich Arutyunyan, Deputy Chief, Economic Affairs Division, Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
  • Nikolay Petrovich Koktomov, First Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom.
  • Alexander Georgiyevich Stetsenko, First Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom.
  • A. D. Keilen
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Naval Advisers

  • Vice Admiral Bogdenko
  • Rear Admiral V. P. Karpunin
  • Commander Soboley

Translator

  • Vladimir Nikolayevich Pavlov, Personal Assistant and Translator to Foreign Minister Molotov.