Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Editor’s Note – This list is designed to provide ready reference for identification of persons mentioned frequently in the supplement and on the document list. Identification of the persons on the list is limited to positions and circumstances relating to the ambassadorial talks and is confined to the years 1955–1957. All titles and positions are American unless otherwise indicated. Where no dates are given, the individual held the position throughout the period covered by the supplement. Chinese names are spelled according to contemporary usage.
    • Adams, Sherman, Assistant to the President.
    • Barnes, Robert G., Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, August 1955–March 1956.
    • Bunker, Ellsworth, President of the American National Red Cross through 1956.
    • Chou En-lai, Premier and Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China.
    • Clough, Ralph N., Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State, July 1955–June 1957; adviser to the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, August-September 1955; after June 1957, Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs.
    • Colm, Peter W., Intelligence Research Analyst, Office of Intelligence Research, Division of Research for Far East, Department of State; adviser to the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, October-December 1955.
    • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State.
    • Ekvall, Lieutenant Colonel Robert B., U.S. Army, interpreter for the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, August 1955–December 1957.
    • Erskine, General Graves B., USMC (retired), Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, Special Operations.
    • Forman, Douglas N., Office of Chinese Affairs from June 1955; adviser to the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, August-November 1955.
    • Freers, Edward L., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, from July 1956.
    • George, Senator Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to January 1957.
    • Gowen, Franklin C., Consul General in Geneva and U.S. Representative, International Organizations.
    • Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to the President.
    • Hill, Robert C., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 1956–May 1957.
    • Hoover, Herbert, Jr., Under Secretary of State to February 1957.
    • Johnson, U. Alexis, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia to December 1957; U.S. representative in ambassadorial talks with the People’s Republic of China, August 1955–December 1957.
    • Koo, V.K. Wellington, Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States to May 1956.
    • Lindbeck, John M.H., Public Affairs Officer, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State.
    • Martin, Edwin W., Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State, to July 1955; National War College, August 1955–July 1956; thereafter, First Secretary at the Embassy in London; adviser to the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, August 1955 and June-December 1957; designated U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks, December 1957.
    • McConaughy, Walter P., Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State, to May 1957.
    • Moorman, Brigadier General P.M., U.S. Army Attaché at the Embassy in Paris from September 1955.
    • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
    • O’Neill, Con, British Chargé in the People’s Republic of China, June 1956–October 1957.
    • Osborn, David L., Officer in Charge of Political Affairs, Office of Chinese Affairs, Department of State, March 1955–December 1955; adviser to the U.S. representative in the ambassadorial talks and Consul in Geneva, December 1955–March 1957; thereafter, with the Office of Chinese Affairs.
    • Phieger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State to April 1957.
    • Richards, James P., Democratic Representative from South Carolina and Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to January 1957.
    • Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
    • Sebald, William J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs to March 1957.
    • Wang Ping-nan, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China to March 1955; thereafter, Ambassador to Poland; representative of the People’s Republic of China in ambassadorial talks with the United States from August 1955.