Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Achilles, Theodore C., Minister at the Embassy in France to May 1956; Ambassador to Peru from July 1956
  • Aklilou Abte Wolde. See Habtewold.
  • Aldrich, Winthrop W., Ambassador to the United Kingdom to February 1957
  • Alger, Frederick M., Jr., Ambassador to Belgium to March 1957
  • Allen, George V., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, January 1955–August 1956; Ambassador to Greece, October 1956–November 1957; Director of the U.S. Information Agency from November 1957
  • Alphand, Hervé, French Representative at the United Nations, June 1955–September 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Ammar, Tahar Ben, Tunisian Prime Minister to April 1956
  • Balafrej, Ahmed, Moroccan Foreign Minister from May 1956
  • Barco, James W., Senior Adviser on Political and Security Council Affairs at the Mission at the United Nations to June 1955; thereafter Counselor of the Mission
  • Barnes, Robert G., Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, August 1955–May 1956; thereafter Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Mutual Security Affairs
  • Bliss, Don C., Ambassador to Ethiopia from June 1957
  • Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice, French Minister of the Armed Forces, January–February 1955; Minister of the Interior, February 1955–January 1956; Defense Minister, January 1956–June 1957; Prime Minister, June–October 1957; thereafter Minister of the Interior
  • Bourguiba, Habib, Tunisian Prime Minister, from April 1956; President from July 1957
  • Brundage, Percival F., Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget to April 1956; thereafter Director
  • Bulganin, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Member of the Presidium of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from February 1955
  • Byroade, Henry A., Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs to January 1955; Ambassador to Egypt, March 1955–September 1956; Ambassador to South Africa from October 1956
  • Cabell, Lieutenant General Charles P., USAF, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
  • Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to November 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Cannon, Cavendish W., Ambassador to Greece to July 1956; Ambassador to Morocco from October 1956
  • Clark, Lewis, Consul General at Algiers
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Ambassador to the United States to July 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Cutler, Robert L., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs to April 1955 and from January 1957
  • Cyr, Leo G., Deputy Director of the Office of African Affairs to February 1955; Director, February 1955–October 1956; Director of the Office of Northern Africa Affairs, October 1956–June 1957; Consul at Tangier, June–August 1957; thereafter Consul General
  • de Margerie. See Jacquin de Margerie
  • Deressa, Yilma, Ethiopian Ambassador to the United States; Foreign Minister from April 1957
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France to January 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 1957
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to April 1955; Prime Minister, April 1955–January 1957
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, General Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs to February 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Ely, General Paul H.R., French Commissioner–General and Commander of the French Forces in Indochina to May 1955; thereafter Chief of the Army General Staff
  • Faure, Edgar Jean, French Foreign Minister, January–February 1955; Prime Minister, February 1955–January 1956
  • Faure, Maurice, French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from January 1956; also Secretary of State for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, November 1956–June 1957
  • Ferguson, C. Vaughan, Jr., Consul General at Dakar to October 1955; Consul General at Tangier, October 1955–May 1957; thereafter Director of the Office of Southern Africa Affairs, Department of State
  • Flake, Wilson C., Counselor of Embassy in South Africa to July 1955; Counselor of Embassy in Italy, August 1955–May 1957; Ambassador to Ghana from June 1957
  • Gaillard, Felix, French Minister of Finance, June 1957–November 1957; thereafter Prime Minister
  • Gerig, O. Benjamin, Deputy Representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council; Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Goodpaster, Colonel Andrew J. (Brigadier General from January 1957), Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1955–February 1957; thereafter Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Gruenther, General Alfred M., Supreme Allied Commander in Europe to November 1956
  • Habtewold, Aklilou, Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and, to April 1957, Foreign Minister
  • Hadsel, Fred L., Special Assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, 1955; Deputy Director of the Office of African Affairs, 1955–October 1956; Director of the Office of Southern Africa Affairs, October [Page XIX] 1956–April 1957; First Secretary of the Embassy in the United Kingdom from April 1957
  • Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Halim, Sayyid Mustafa Ben, Libyan Prime Minister to May 1957
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary–General of the United Nations
  • Herter, Christian A., Consultant to the Secretary of State from January–February 1957; thereafter Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board
  • Hollister, John B., Director of the International Cooperation Administration, July 1955–July 1957
  • Holmes, Julius C., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs to May 1955; Diplomatic Agent and Consul General at Tangier, May 1955–July 1956; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
  • Hoover, Herbert, Jr., Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board to February 1957
  • Houghton, Amory, Ambassador to France from April 1957
  • Howe, Fisher, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, to March 1956; thereafter Director of the Executive Secretariat
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury to July 1957
  • Idris I, King of Libya
  • Jacquin de Margerie, Roland, Assistant Director General of Political and Economic Affairs, French Foreign Ministry, to June 1955; Director General, June 1955–July 1956
  • Jebb, Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn, British Ambassador to France
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs to October 1955; Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Italy from October 1955
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Ambassador to Tunisia from October 1956
  • Jones, John W., Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, to February 1957; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Jones, Richard Lee, Director of the Foreign Operations Mission in Liberia to June 1955; thereafter Ambassador to Liberia
  • July, Pierre, French Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, February–October 1955
  • Key, David McK., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs to July 1955
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Ku’bar, Abd al–Majid, Libyan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, March–May 1957; thereafter Prime Minister
  • Lacoste, Robert, French Minister Resident in Algeria and Governor–General of Algeria from February 1956
  • Ladgham, Bahi, Tunisian Deputy Prime Minister, April 1956–July 1957; thereafter Acting Vice President and Secretary of State for Coordination and Defense
  • LaMont, George D., Consul General at Casablanca to December 1956; thereafter Deputy Director of the Office of Southern Africa Affairs
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Minister of Supply to April 1955; Minister of Defence, April 1955–December 1955; thereafter Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Representative at the United Nations
  • Louw, Eric H., South African Minister of External Affairs; to July 1956, also Finance Minister
  • Lucet, Charles, Minister in the French Embassy in the United States from October 1955
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State to December 1956
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Minister of Defence to April 1955; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, April–December 1955; Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 1955–January 1957; thereafter Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury
  • Makins, Sir Roger M., British Ambassador to the United States to October 1956; thereafter Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury
  • Margerie. See Jacquin de Margerie
  • Massigli, René, Secretary–General of Foreign Affairs, French Foreign Ministry, to July 1956
  • McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense from October 1957
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs to May 1956; Ambassador to Canada from May 1956
  • Mohamed V (Mohamed ben Youssef), Sultan of Morocco (deposed August 1953; reinstated November 1955) to August 1957, when he assumed title of King
  • Mokaddem, Sadok, Tunisian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from July 1957
  • Mollet, Guy, French Prime Minister, February 1956–June 1957
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Nkrumah, Kwame, Prime Minister of the Gold Coast to March 1957; thereafter President of Ghana
  • O’Connor, Roderic L., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State to December 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from December 1955
  • Padmore, George A., Liberian Ambassador to the United States from April 1956
  • Palmer, Joseph, II, Deputy Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, to September 1955; Acting Director, September 1955–September 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State to April 1957
  • Pinay, Antoine, French Foreign Minister, February 1955–January 1956
  • Pineau, Christian R., French Foreign Minister from February 1956
  • Pinkerton, Lowell C., Ambassador to Sudan, May 1956–August 1957
  • Porter, William J., Consul General at Rabat to August 1956; Counselor of Embassy in Morocco, August 1956–August 1957; thereafter Director of the Office of Northern Africa Affairs
  • Radford, Admiral Arthur W., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to August 1957
  • Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State from March 1957
  • Richards, James P., Representative from South Carolina and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to January 1957; Special Assistant to the President from January 1957
  • Robertson, Reuben B., Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense, August 1955–April 1957
  • Rountree, William M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs from August 1956
  • Savary, Alain, French Secretary of State for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, February–October 1956
  • Sears, Mason, Representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council
  • Seydoux de Clausonne, Roger, French Deputy Minister of the Residence General in Tunisia to September 1955; High Commissioner in Tunisia, September 1955–June 1956; French Ambassador to Tunisia, June–August 1956
  • Shuckburgh, Charles Arthur Evelyn, British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to June 1956
  • Simonson, Joseph, Ambassador to Ethiopia to May 1957
  • Simpson, Clarence Lorenzo, Liberian Ambassador to the United States to June 1956
  • Slim, Mongi, Tunisian Minister of State to September 1955 and April–August 1956; Minister of the Interior, September 1955–April 1956; Ambassador to the United States from September 1956 and Representative at the United Nations from November 1956
  • Soustelle, Jacques, Governor–General of Algeria, January 1955–January 1956
  • Spaak, Paul–Henri, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs to May 1957; thereafter Secretary General of NATO
  • Stassen, Harold E., Director of the Foreign Operations Administration to June 1955; Special Assistant on Disarmament to President Eisenhower from March 1955 and Deputy Representative to the United Nations Disarmament Commission and Sub-Committee from August 1955
  • Strijdom, Johannes Gerhardus, South African Prime Minister
  • Tappin, John L., Ambassador to Libya
  • Taylor, General Maxwell, USA, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, from June 1955
  • Timmons, Benson E.L., III, First Secretary of the Embassy in France and Director of the Foreign Operations Mission to July 1955; Minister for Economic Affairs, July–September 1955; thereafter Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Tolbert, William R., Jr., Vice President of Liberia
  • Tubman, William V.S., President of Liberia
  • Twining, General Nathan F., Chief of Staff of the Air Force to July 1957; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
  • Tyler, William R., Deputy Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, July 1955–February 1957; thereafter Director
  • Vimont, Jacques, Minister–Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States to August 1957
  • Wailes, Edward T., Ambassador to South Africa to August 1956
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Minister–Counselor of the Embassy in the Soviet Union to October 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Welensky, Sir Roy, Minister of Transport and Communications in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland to November 1956; thereafter Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs
  • Whitney, John Hay, Ambassador to the United Kingdom from February 1957
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1955
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense to October 1957
  • Yost, Charles W., Minister–Counselor of the Embassy in France, July 1956–December 1957