Office of the Historian

List of Principal Participants in the Bermuda Conference, December 4–8, 1953 1

1. Compiled from delegation lists in the Conference files, lot 60 D 627, CF 180. This list includes the names and positions only of those mentioned in the documentation which follows.

December 4–8, 1953
  • United States:
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
  • John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
  • James C. Hagerty, Press Secretary to the President
  • C. D. Jackson, Special Assistant to the President
  • Douglas MacArthur II, Counselor of the Department of State
  • Livingston T. Merchant, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State
  • Frank C. Nash, Assistant Secretary of Defense
  • Ann Whitman, Secretary to the President
  • Lt. Col. Vernon Walters, Interpreter for the President
  • Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs
  • Walter Robertson, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Ridgway B. Knight, Acting Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Brewster H. Morris, Director of the Office of German Political Affairs, Department of State
  • Ray L. Thurston, Deputy Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • William Tyler, First Secretary at the Embassy in France
  • Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • R. Gordon Arneson, Special Assistant for Atomic Energy Affairs

  • France:

    • Joseph Laniel, Prime Minister
    • Georges Bidault, Foreign Minister
    • André Bougenot, Under Secretary of State
    • Germain Vidal, Director of the Cabinet
    • Paul Fouchet, Diplomatic Counselor to the Prime Minister
    • Alexandre Parodi, Secretary General of the Foreign Ministry
    • Roland Jacquin de Margerie, Director General for Political and Economic Affairs, Foreign Ministry
    • François Seydoux de Clausonne, Director of European Affairs, Foreign Ministry
    • Jacques Roux, Director of Asian Affairs, Foreign Ministry
    • André Baeyens, Press Officer, Foreign Ministry
    • Jacques Vimont, Director of the Foreign Minister’s Cabinet
    • Jean-Marc Boegner, Counselor of the Embassy in the United States
    • Jean Laloy, Counselor of the Embassy in the United States
    • Jean Sauvagnargues, Counselor of the Embassy in the United States
    • Hervé Alphand, Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council
    • Constantin Andronikov, Official Interpreter

    United Kingdom:

    • Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
    • Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    • John R. Colville, Private Secretary to the Prime Minister
    • Charles A. E. Shuckburgh, Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    • Lord Cherwell, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Atomic Energy
    • Sir Pierson Dixon, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    • William D. Allen, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    • Sir Frank Roberts, Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
    • Sir Norman Brook, Secretary of the Cabinet
    • John V. Rob, News Department of the Foreign Office
    • D’Arcy Edmondson, Head of the British Information Services in the United States
    • Joan C. Petrie, Delegation Secretary

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization:

    • Lord Ismay, Secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council