Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955–1957, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1957, Volume XVII

Editor’s Note: The identification of persons in this list is limited to circumstances and positions under reference in this volume. Historical personages alluded to in the volume and certain minor officials are not identified in this list. All titles and positions are American unless there is an indication to the contrary.

In this and in other editorial material throughout the volume (document headings, footnotes, and editorial notes), every effort has been made to provide recognizable and consistent transliterations of names of individuals from countries using non-Roman alphabets. The transliterations adopted for proper names were those commonly used by the Department of State at the time, or in documents or official publications of the countries concerned. (In the case of Arabic names, differences arise in the transliteration of vowels. The editors have generally rendered the definite article as al- rather than el-, and have omitted diacritical marks.)

Abramov, Alexander N., Soviet Ambassador to Israel

Adams, Sherman, Assistant to the President

Adams, Ware, Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Department of State, from September 1956

Alphand, Hervé, Permanent Representative of France at the United Nations until August 24, 1956; Ambassador to the United States from September 10, 1956

Amer, Gen. Abdel Hakim, Egyptian Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces; Minister of War and Marine; Chief Commander of the Egyptian-Syrian Joint Command from October 23, 1956

Amin, Moustafa, Egyptian publisher and special emissary of Nasser

Anderson, Robert B., Special Emissary for the President to the Middle East, January–March 1956, and again in August 1956; Secretary of the Treasury from July 29, 1957

Armstrong, W. Park, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence, Department of State, until June 16, 1957

Asbjornson, Mildred, Secretary of State Dulles’ secretary

Bailey, Ronald W., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States until October 25, 1957

Barbour, Walworth, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom after February 23, 1956

Barco, James W., Counselor of the Mission to the United Nations from June 16, 1955; also Deputy Representative to the U.N. Security Council from April 12, 1956; also Counselor of the Delegation to the U.N. General Assembly at the 10th, 11th, and 12th Sessions

Barnes, Robert G., Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Mutual Security Affairs from March 11, 1956

Beckett, John A., Assistant Secretary of the British Ministry of Fuel and Power

Beam, Jacob D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, October 23, 1955-June 27, 1957; Ambassador to Poland after August 9, 1957

Becker, Loftus, Legal Adviser, Department of State, from June 13, 1957

Beeley, Harold, British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, May 1955-June 1956; thereafter Assistant Under Secretary in the British Foreign Office

Ben Gurion, David, Israeli Minister of Defense from February 17, 1955; also Prime Minister from November 3, 1955

Bennike, Maj. Gen. Vagn, former Chief of Staff, U.N. Truce Supervisory Organization until September 2, 1954

Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Director for Policies and Programs, United States Information Agency, until March 22, 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs from March 28, 1957

Bergus, Donald C., Officer in Charge of Israel-Jordan Affairs, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State

Bernau, Phyllis D., Secretary of State Dulles’ Personal Assistant

Berry, J. Lampton, Special Assistant to the Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration, October 21, 1955-August 30, 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs

Bizri, Gen. Afif, Syrian Army Chief of Staff from August 1957

Black, Eugene, President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Blackiston, Slator C., Jr., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, April 8, 1956- March 10, 1957; thereafter Attaché of the Embassy in Lebanon

Bodggs, Marion W., Coordinator, National Security Council Board of Assistants, until 1957; Director of the National Security Council Secretariat from 1957

Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice, French Minister of Defense, January 31, 1956-June 11, 1957

Bowie, Robert, Director, Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until October 18, 1957; Department of State member of the National Security Council Planning Board, August 28, 1955-October 18, 1957

Bulganin, Nikolai A., Soviet Minister of Defense until February 1955; Chairman, Council of Ministers, Presidium Member of the Soviet Communist Party, and Head of Government

Bunche, Ralph J., Under Secretary in the United Nations Secretariat

Burdett, William C., Jr., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, October 7, 1956-August 11, 1957; Acting Depuyty Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, August 11, 1957-August 28, 1957; First Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom from November 3, 1957

Burgess, W. Randolph, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs until July 1957; Permanent Representative to NATO with personal rank of Ambassador from July 3, 1957

Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., USN, Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 17, 1955

Burns, Maj. Gen. Eedson L.M., Canadian Army Officer; Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization until November 1956; Commander, United Nations Emergency Force, from November 1956

Byroade, Henry A., Ambassador to Egypt, March 10, 1955-September 10, 1956; Ambassador to the Union of South Africa from October 9, 1956

Caccia, Sir Harold, Ambassador to the United States from November 9, 1956

Chamoun, Camille, President of Lebanon

Chiperfield, Robert B., Democratic Congressman from Illinois and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Comay, Michael S., Israeli Ambassador to Canada until April 1957

Corbett, Jack C., Director, Office of Finance and Development Policy, Department of State

Cordier, Andrew W., Executive Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations since 1946

Coulson, Sir John E., Minister of the British Embassy in the United States from October 27, 1955

Crosthwaite, Ponsonby Moore, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom at the U.N. Security Council; Alternate Representative at the General Assembly

Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence, Department of State, May 5, 1957-October 10, 1957; thereafter Director of Intelligence and Research

Dale, William N., Officer in Charge of United Kingdom and Ireland Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State, from July 29, 1956

Daridan, Jean Henri, Assistant Director of the Cabinet of the Minister, French Foreign Ministry, February-July 1956; Director General of Political and Economic Affairs from July 5, 1956

Dayan, Maj. Gen. Moshe, Chief of General Staff, Israeli Defense Forces

De Palma, Samuel, Deputy Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, April 8, 1956-August 25, 1957

Dean, Arthur H., lawyer in private practice

Dean, Sir Patrick Henry, Assistant Under Secretary of State in the British Foreign Office, until August 29, 1956; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State

Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France until January 28, 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 15, 1957

Dixon, Sir Pierson, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations

Dorman, John, First Secretary and Consul at the Embassy in the United Kingdom, October 22, 1955-August 1957; Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from August 28, 1957

Drain, Richard D., Secretary of State Dulles’ Special Assistant, March 11, 1957-August 9, 1957

Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence

Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State

Eban, Abba, Israeli Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative at the United Nations

Eden, Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony, British Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, April 6, 1955-January 10, 1957

Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States

Elbrick, C. Burke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until February 14, 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs

Engen, Hans, Permanent Representative of Norway at the United Nations

Eshkol, Levi, Israeli Minister of Finance

Faisal ibn abd al-Aziz, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia; Saudi Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Faisal II, King of Iraq

Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Chairman of the Egyptian Delegation at the United Nations and Representative at the General Assembly

FitzGerald, Dennis A., Deputy Director for Operations, International Cooperation Administration

Flemming, Arthur S., Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, until February 1957

Fobes, John E., Director, Office of International Administration, Department of State, from September 25, 1955

Frost, Rear Adm. Lawrence H., USN, Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Intelligence) and Director of Naval Intelligence

Fulbright, J. William, Democratic Senator from Arkansas and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Furnas, Clifford C., Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Development), December 1, 1955-February 15, 1957

Gaitskell, Hugh, British Member of Parliament and Leader of the Labour Party since December 1955

Gamon, David L., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Department of State, from November 4, 1956

George, Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia until January 3, 1957; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, until January 3, 1957; Special Ambassador to NATO, January 3-August 4, 1957; died August 4, 1957

Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council

Gohar, Lt. Col. Salah, Egyptian Army; head of the Palestine Department, Egyptian Ministry of War

Goodpaster, Brig. Gen. Andrew J., USA, Staff Secretary and Defense Liaison Officer to the President; became Brigadier General on January 1, 1957

Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 14, 1955-February 27, 1957; Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization from March 14, 1957

Green, Theodore F., Democratic Senator from Rhode Island; Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from January 3, 1957

Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, September 9, 1956-October 1957

Gromyko, Andrei A., First Deputy Soviet Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United Kingdom until February 14, 1957; thereafter Foreign Minister; Representative to the 12th Session of the U.N. General Assembly

Gruenther, Gen. Alfred M., USA, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO, until November 1956

Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to the President

Haikal (Heikal), Mohammed, Egyptian journalist and confidant of President Nasser; editor of Al Ahram from 1957

Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Hanes, John W., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until April 1957

Hare, Raymond A., Ambassador to Egypt from September 25, 1956

Harlow, Bryce N., Administrative Assistant to the President

Hayter, Sir William, British Ambassador to the Soviet Union until January 1957; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary in the Foreign Office

Heath, Donald R., Ambassador to Lebanon from March 9, 1955

Heeney, Arnold D.P., Canadian Ambassador to the United States until April 1957

Henderson, Loy W., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration from January 26, 1955; Officer in Charge of Hungarian Refugee Operations from December 31, 1956

Herter, Christian A., Consultant to Secretary of State Dulles, January 14, 1957-February 20, 1957; Under Secretary of State from February 21, 1957; Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board from February 25, 1957

Hill, Robert C., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, March 7, 1956-May 1957; Ambassador to Mexico from May 20, 1957

Hoffacker, Lewis, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, from December 16, 1956

Home, Earl of (Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home), British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations since April 1955

Hood, Viscount Samuel, Assistant Under Secretary of State in the British Foreign Ministry, September 1956-September 1957; thereafter Minister at the Embassy in the United States

Hoover, Herbert, Jr., Under Secretary of State until February 21, 1957

Houghton, Amory, Ambassador to France from April 17, 1957

Howe, Fisher, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, until March 12, 1956; thereafter Director of the Executive Secretariat

Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury

Hussein, Ahmad, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States

Hussein, King, King of Jordan

Johnson, Lyndon B., Democratic Senator from Texas; Senate Majority Leader from January 3, 1955

Johnston, Eric A., Chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, International Cooperation Administration

Jones, John Wesley, Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, until February 14, 1957; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from February 14, 1957

Joxe, Louis, Secretary General of the French Foreign Ministry from July 5, 1956

al-Kaissouni, Abdelmoneim, Egyptian Minister of Finance

Kalijarvi, Thorsten V., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until March 14, 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs thereafter

al-Khayyal, Sheikh Abdullah, Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States from August 11, 1955

Khouri, Victor A., Lebanese Ambassador to the United States from November 8, 1955

Khrushchev, Nikita S., First Secretary of the Central Commitee of the Soviet Communist Party

Kidron, Mordecai R., Israeli Deputy Representative to the United Nations

Kiselev, Yevgeniy Dmitrievich, Soviet Ambassador to Egypt from February 13, 1956

Knowland, William F., Republican Senator from California; Senate Minority Leader and member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Kollek, Theodore (Teddy), Director General of the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office

Labouisse, Henry R., Director, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

Laboulaye, François de, Second Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States

Lall, Arthur S., Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations

Laskey, Denis S., Head of the Economic Relations Department, British Foreign Office, from May 9, 1955; Counselor of the Foreign Office; Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary from 1956

Lawson, Edward B., Ambassador to Israel

Leary, Col. Byron V., USA, Acting Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization after November 1956

Lloyd, Selwyn, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from December 12, 1955

Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., Permanent Representative at the United Nations

Loutfi, Omar, Permanent Representative of Egypt at the United Nations

Lucet, Charles E., Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States from June 1955

Ludlow, James M., Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Department of State, until November 4, 1956; thereafter Acting United Nations Adviser, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs

McAfee, William, Office of the Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, winter 1956–October 1957; Assistant to the Special Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research from October 10, 1957

McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1, 1957

McCloy, John J., Chairman of the Board of the Chase Manhattan Bank

McCollum, Robert J., Deputy Administrator for Refugee Relief, Department of State, from February 1, 1957

Macmillan, Harold, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 20, 1955–January 10, 1957; thereafter Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury

Macomber, William B., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, November 16, 1955–August 15, 1957

Malik, Charles, Permanent Representative of Lebanon at the United Nations, 1956–1957; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Education from November 19, 1956

Mallory, Lester D., Ambassador to Jordan

Mansfield, Mike, Democratic Senator from Montana; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Senate Majority Whip from January 3, 1957

Mathews, Elbert G., Member of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, March 13, 1955–November 13, 1957; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning from November 3, 1957

Meeker, Leonard C., Assistant Legal Adviser for United Nations Affairs, January 1951-April 1957; Acting Deputy Legal Adviser from April 3, 1957

Meir, Golda, Israeli Minister of Labor until June 1956; Foreign Minister from June 18, 1956

Menon, V.K. Krishna, Representative of India at the United Nations and Representative on the Trusteeship Council; Minister without Portfolio, 1956; Minister of Defense, 1957

Menzies, Robert G., Australian Prime Minister

Merchant, Livingston T., Ambassador to Canada from May 23, 1956

Minnich, L. Arthur, Jr., Assistant Staff Secretary to the President

Moline, Edwin G., Officer in Charge of Economic Organization Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, from May 6, 1956

Mollet, Guy, French Prime Minister, January 31, 1956–June 11, 1957

Moose, James S., Jr., Ambassador to Syria until June 30, 1957

Morris, Willie, First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States from August 1, 1955

Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Nasser (Nasr, Nassir), Gamal Abd’ul, Egyptian Head of Government; President and Head of State from June 24, 1956

Nehru, Jawaharlal, Indian Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs; Head of the Department of Atomic Energy

Newsom, David D., Office of Arabian Peninsula and Iraqi Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State, from June 27, 1956

O’Connor, Roderic L., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, December 1, 1955-May 1957; Administrator, Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, from May 28, 1957

Pearson, Lester, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs until June 21, 1957; Representative to the 11th Session of the U.N. General Assembly, November 1956–March 1957

Pella, Giuseppe, Italian Foreign Minister from May 20, 1957

Persons, Maj. Gen. Wilton B. (Jerry), USA, Deputy Assistant to the President

Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State until April 1, 1957

Pineau, Christian, French Foreign Minister from February 1, 1956; Head of the French Delegation at the United Nations, 1956 and 1957

Proctor, Carolyn, Secretary of State Dulles’ secretary

al-Quwatli (Quwaitli, Quwatly, Kuwatly), Shukri, President of Syria from August 18, 1955

Radford, Adm. Arthur W., USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until August 14, 1957

Rafael, Gideon, Counselor, Department of Middle Eastern and United Nations Affairs, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Rayburn, Sam, Democratic Congressman from Texas; Speaker of the House of Representatives

Raymond, John M., Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, until February 1957; Deputy Legal Adviser, March 1-April 2, 1957; Acting Legal Adviser from April 3, 1957

Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State from March 14, 1957

Riad, Gen. Mahmoud, Egyptian Army; Egyptian Ambassador to Syria

Richards, James P., Special Assistant to the President with the personal rank of Ambassador from January 7, 1957

al-Rifai, Abdul Monem, Jordanian Ambassador to the United States until August 2, 1957

al-Rifai, Samir, Jordanian Foreign Minister from April 25, 1957

Roberts, Randolph, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, after January 29, 1956

Rockwell, Stuart W., Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, July 1, 1956–August 11, 1957; thereafter Director

Rountree, William M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, October 9, 1955–July 26, 1956; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs

Russell, Richard B., Democratic Senator from Georgia; Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee; Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee

Sabry, Ali, Egyptian Director of Intelligence for External Activities, June 1956-May 1957; Minister of State for Presidential Affairs from May 1957

al-Said, General Nuri, Iraqi Prime Minister, August 3, 1954-June 20, 1957

Salisbury, Lord, Leader of the British House of Lords

Sandys, Duncan, British Minister of Defense from January 13, 1957

Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia

Shaw, John F., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, July 3, 1955–September 23, 1956; thereafter Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs

Sherman, Meir, Economic Minister of the Israeli Embassy in the United States

Sherwood, Robert K., Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Deparatment of State, until October 6, 1957

Shiloah, Reuven, Minister of the Israeli Embassy in the United States

Sisco, Joseph J., Officer in Charge of General Assembly and Security Council Affairs, Department of State, July 1, 1956–January 27, 1957; thereafter Officer in Charge of United Nations Political and Security Affairs

Smith, H. Alexander, Republican Senator from New Jersey; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Spender, Sir Percy, Australian Ambassador to the United States

Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, from June 30, 1955

Tyler, William R., Deputy Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, until February 14, 1957; thereafter Director

Vorys, John M., Republican Congressman from Ohio; Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee

Wadsworth, George E., Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

Wadsworth, James J., Alternate Representative to the 10th, 11th, and 12th Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly

Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs after October 8, 1956

Waugh, Samuel C., President and Chairman of the Board of the Export-Import Bank from October 4, 1955

Wentworth, Brig. Gen. Richard D., USAF, Secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff from summer 1956

White, Paul Lincoln (Linc), Acting Chief of the News Division, Department of State, December 1955-July 1957; thereafter Chief

Whitman, Ann, President Eisenhower’s personal secretary

Whitney, John Hay, Ambassador to the United Kingdom from February 28, 1957

Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs after September 6, 1955

Wiley, Alexander, Republican Senator from Wisconsin; member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Commitee; ranking Republican member of those Committees

Wilkins, Fraser, Director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Department of State, July 3, 1955–September 1957; Minister-Counselor at the Embassy in Iran from September 16, 1957

Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 8, 1957

Yassin (Yasin), Shaikh Yusuf, Saudi Royal Counselor; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Secretary to King Saud

Yost, Charles W., Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in France, October 2, 1956-December 1957; Ambassador to Syria from December 24, 1957

Zeineddine, Farid, Syrian Ambassador to the United States until August 1957; Vice Chairman of the Syrian Delegation to the 11th and 12th Sessions of the United Nations General Assembly, 1956 and 1957

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