Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • Editor’s Note: The identification of persons in this list is generally limited to circumstances and positions under reference in this volume. All titles and positions are American unless otherwise indicated. Where no dates are given, the official held the position throughout the period covered by this volume.
  • Achilles, Theodore C., Minister to France until May 1956
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and, until May 1955, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Aldrich, Richard, Economic Counselor of the Embassy in Spain and Director of the U.S. Operations Mission from May 1956
  • Aldrich, Winthrop W., Ambassador to the United Kingdom until February 1, 1957
  • Alger, Frederick M., Jr., Ambassador to Belgium until March 27, 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 Permanent Representative at the United Nations, June 1955–September 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Anderson, Dillon, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs, April 1955–September 1956; Consultant to the President from June 1957
  • Anderson, Robert B., Deputy Secretary of Defense until August 1955; Secretary of the Treasury from July 1957
  • Areilza, José M. De, Count of Motrico, Spanish Ambassador to the United States
  • Armstrong, W. Park, Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Intelligence until May 1957, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Spain from September 1957
  • Artajo, Alberto Martín, see Martín Artajo, Alberto
  • Auriol, Vincent, former President of France
  • Barbour, Walworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1955; Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the United Kingdom, November 1955–February 1956; thereafter Deputy Chief of 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
  • Barnett, Robert W., Officer in Charge of Economic Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, until November 1955; Officer in Charge of Economic Organization Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, December 1955–May 1956; thereafter Economic Counselor of the Embassy in the Netherlands
  • Beam, Jacob D., Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, March 1955–October 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, October 1955–June 1957; thereafter Ambassador to Poland
  • Bech, Joseph, President, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Trade of Luxembourg
  • Becker, Loftus, Legal Adviser of the Department of State from June 1957
  • Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Director of the U.S. Information Agency until March 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
  • Bevan, Aneurin, Member of Parliament and former British Minister of Health and Minister of Labour
  • Beyen (Beijen), Johan W., Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, concurrently with J. M. A. H. Luns, until October 1956
  • Billotte, General of the Army Pierre, French Minister of National Defense and the Armed Forces, October 1955–January 1956
  • Black, Eugene R., President of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  • Blankenhorn, Herbert A., West German Permanent Representative to NATO from May 1955
  • Boheman, Erik C., Swedish Ambassador to the United States
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union until April 1957; Ambassador to the Philippines from June 1957
  • Bonbright, James C. H., Ambassador to Portugal from February 1955
  • Bond, Niles W., Deputy Director of the Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs, Department of State, until August 1955; Director, August 1955–September 1956; thereafter Counselor of the Embassy in Italy
  • Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice, French Minister of the Armed Forces, January–February 1955; Minister of the Interior, February 1955–January 1956; Minister of National Defense, January 1956–June 1957; Prime Minister, June–November 1957; thereafter Minister of the Interior
  • Bowie, Robert R., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State, until August 1955; Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning and Department of State representative to the National Security Council Planning Board, August 1955–October 1957
  • Brentano, Heinrich von, West German Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 1955
  • Brosio, Manlio, Italian Ambassador to the United States from February 1955
  • Brown, Winthrop G., Minister for Economic Affairs of the Embassy in the United Kingdom until June 1957
  • Brownell, Herbert, Attorney General of the United States until November 1957
  • Bruce, David K. E., Special Consultant to the Secretary of State, January 1955–March 1957; Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and Chief of Mission at Berlin from March 1957
  • Brucker, Wilber M., Secretary of the Army from July 1955
  • Brundage, Percival F., Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget until 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
  • Bunker, Ellsworth, Ambassador to India and Nepal from March 1957
  • Burgess, W. Randolph, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs until July 1957; Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from September 1957
  • Butler, Richard A., British Chancellor of the Exchequer until December 1955; Lord Privy Seal and leader of the House of Commons, December 1955–January 1957
  • Butterworth, W. Walton, Minister of the Embassy in the United Kingdom until January 1956; thereafter Representative to the European Coal and Steel Community
  • Butz, Earl L., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
  • Byington, Homer, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Spain
  • Cabot, John M., Ambassador to Sweden until May 1957
  • Caccia, Sir Harold A., British Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until November 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Caetano, Marcello, Italian Deputy Prime Minister
  • Caldeira Queiros, seeQueiros
  • Carney, Admiral Robert B., Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until August 1955
  • Cassady, Admiral John H., Commander in Chief, Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean until April 1956
  • Castiella y Maiz, Fernando M., Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 1957
  • Cattani, Attilio, Director General of Economic Affairs, Italian Foreign Ministry
  • Chaban-Delmas, Jacques, French Minister of State, February 1956–May 1957; Minister of National Defense and the Armed Forces from November 1957
  • Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Republic of China
  • Churchill, Sir Winston L. S., British Prime Minister until April 1955
  • Coe, Robert D., Ambassador to Denmark until June 1957
  • Cockcroft, Sir John D., Member for Scientific Research, British Atomic Energy Authority
  • Collins, V. Lansing, Jr., First Secretary and Consul of the Embassy in Italy until September 1957; thereafter Counselor of the Embassy in Turkey
  • Conant, James B., U.S. High Commissioner for Germany until May 1955; Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and Chief of Mission at Berlin, May 1955–February 1957
  • Corbett, Jack C., Director of the Office of International Financial and Development Policy, Department of State
  • Couillard, Louis, Canadian Counselor of Embassy in the United States until October 1957; thereafter Chief of Economic Section, Ministry of External Affairs
  • Coulson, John E., British Minister to the United States, October 1955–summer 1957
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Ambassador to the United States until July 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Cunha, Paulo A.V., Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Cutler, Robert L., Administrative and Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs until April 1955 and from January 1957
  • Dale, William N., First Secretary and Consul of the Embassy in the United Kingdom until July 1956; thereafter Officer in Charge of United Kingdom and Ireland Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Daridan, Jean Henri, French Assistant Commissioner General in Indochina until 1955; Assistant Director General of Political Affairs, Foreign Ministry, 1955–1956; Assistant Director of the Foreign Minister’s Cabinet, February–July 1956; thereafter Director General of Political and Economic Affairs
  • Davis, Vice Admiral Arthur C., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Director of the Office of Foreign Military Affairs until October 1955
  • De Areilza, seeAreilza, José M. de
  • De Margérie, seeJacquin de Margérie
  • De Zulueta, Philip F., Private Secretary to Prime Minister MACMILLAN from 1955
  • Dean, Patrick H., British Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1956
  • Diefenbaker, John G., Prime Minister of Canada from June 21, 1957
  • Diem, seeNgo Dinh Diem
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France until January 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs from March 1957
  • Dixon, Sir Pierson J., British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Dodge, Joseph M., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower and Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy until July 1956
  • Dorman, John, First Secretary and Consul of the Embassy in France, October 1955–August 1957; thereafter Deputy Director of the Office of Near Eastern Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs, Department of State
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director for Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Dunn, James C., Ambassador to Spain until February 1955
  • Durbrow, Elbridge, Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Italy until October 1955
  • Eban, Abba, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until April 1955; Prime Minister, April 1955–January 1957
  • Einaudi, Luigi, President of Italy until April 1955
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Eisenberg, Robert, Acting Representative to the European Coal and Steel Community until February 1956; Deputy Representative, February-April 1956; First Secretary of the Embassy in Luxembourg, March and April 1956
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of European Affairs, until February 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Emmerson, John K., Counselor for Political Affairs of the Embassy in France from April 1957
  • Engle, James B., Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Fanfani, Amintore, Secretary of the Italian Christian Democratic Party
  • Farley, Philip J., Deputy to the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs until October 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs
  • Faure, Edgar Jean, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, January–February 1955; Prime Minister, February 1955–January 1956
  • Fechteler, Admiral William M., Commander in Chief, Allied Forces in Southern Europe until July 1956; Consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and member of the committee studying security matters, July-December 1956
  • Fernandes, Luis E., Portuguese Ambassador to the United States
  • Folchi, Alberto, Italian Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs from July 1955
  • Franco y Bahamonde, Generalissimo Francisco, Spanish Chief of State, Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and Prime Minister
  • Frank, Isaiah, Deputy Director of the Office of International Trade and Resources, Department of State, January 1955–June 1957; Acting Director, Office of International Trade, from June 1957
  • Freund, Richard B., Economic Counselor of the Embassy in Belgium from December 1956
  • Gabbert, Howard M., Consultant to the Department of State, March 1956–March 1957; Assistant Director of the Commodities Division, Office of International Trade and Resources, from March 1957
  • Gaillard, Felix, French Minister of Finance, June 1957–November 1957; thereafter Prime Minister
  • Gaitskell, Hugh T. M., Member of Parliament and leader of the British Labour Party
  • George, Walter F., Democratic Senator from Georgia; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, January 1955–January 1957; appointed Presidential Special Representative and Personal Ambassador to study and develop the non-military aspects of NATO, May 1956
  • Gerhardsen, Einar, Norwegian Prime Minister from January 1955
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Goodpaster, Colonel Andrew J. (Brigadier General from January 1957), White House Staff Secretary
  • Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, July 1955–February 1957; thereafter Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat, Department of State, September 1956–October 1957; thereafter Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
  • Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, Soviet First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs until February 1957; thereafter Foreign Minister
  • Gronchi, Giovanni, President of Italy from April 1955
  • Gruenther, General Alfred M., Supreme Allied Commander in Europe until November 1956
  • Gudmundsson, Gudmundar J., Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs from July 1956
  • Gudmundsson, Kristinn, Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs until July 1956
  • Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hanes, John W., Jr., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State
  • Hansen, Hans C. S., Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and from February 1955 Prime Minister
  • Hayter, William G., British Ambassador to the Soviet Union until January 1957; thereafter Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Hedding, Rear Admiral Truman J., Special Assistant, Office of the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 1955–June 1956
  • Heeney, Arnold D. P., Canadian Ambassador to the United States until March 1957
  • Hensel, H. Struve, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until June 1955
  • Herter, Christian A., Consultant to the Secretary of State, January–February 1957; thereafter Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board
  • Hickerson, John D., Ambassador to Finland from November 1955
  • Hollister, John B., Director of the International Cooperation Administration, July 1955–July 1957
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until 1957; Representative to the Council of Western European Union from 1956
  • Hoover, Herbert, Jr., Under Secretary of State and Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board until February 1957
  • Horsey, Outerbridge, Director of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, July 1955–April 1956
  • Houghton, Amory, Ambassador to France from April 1957
  • Howe, Fisher, Deputy Special Assistant for Intelligence, Department of State, until March 1956; Director of the Executive Secretariat thereafter
  • Hughes, Rowland R., Director of the Bureau of the Budget until April 1956
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury until July 1957
  • Irwin, John N., II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Ismay, Baron Hastings Lionel, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until April 1957
  • Jacquin de Margérie, Roland, Assistant Director General of Political and Economic Affairs, French Foreign Ministry, until June 1955; Director General, June 1955–July 1956
  • Jebb, Sir H. M. G., British Ambassador to France
  • Jernegan, John D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs until October 1955; Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in Italy from October 1955
  • Jonasson, Hermann, Prime Minister of Iceland and Minister of Justice from July 1956
  • Jones, G. Lewis, Ambassador to Tunisia from October 1956
  • Jones, John Wesley, Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, until February 1957; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Jova, Joseph J., Consul of the Embassy in Portugal until February 1957; Officer in Charge of French-Iberian Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from March 1957
  • Kalijarvi, Thorsten V., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until March 1957; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1957–September 1957
  • Kauffmann, Henrik L. H., Danish Ambassador to the United States
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • King, William Lyon Mackenzie, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Kissner, General August W., Chief of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group in Spain
  • Knight, Ridgway B., Political Adviser to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, May 1955–September 1957
  • Knight, William E., Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until March 1955; First Secretary-Consul in the Embassy in Iceland, March 1955–October 1957
  • Kranich, Robert H., Officer in Charge of North Atlantic Treaty Economic and Military Assistance Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, until 1956; First Secretary and Financial Officer of the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany from August 1957
  • Laloy, Jean Leonard, Technical Adviser in the Cabinet of the French Foreign Minister, January–February 1955; Deputy Director, from February 1955; Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the Soviet Union, 1955–March 1956; thereafter Officer in Charge of European Affairs, Foreign Ministry
  • Lange, Halvard M., Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 1956
  • Laprock, Victor, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 1957
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Leishman, Frederick J., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Levy-Hawes, Maurice G., Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Lister, Ernest A., Officer in Charge of United Kingdom and Ireland Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State, July 1955–May 1956; Deputy Director of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, May 1956–August 1957
  • Lloyd, Sir John Selwyn Brooke, British Minister of Supply until April 1955; Minister of Defense, April 1955–December 1955; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs thereafter
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot, Permanent Representative to the United Nations
  • Lodge, John D., Ambassador to Spain from March 1955
  • Loper, Major General Herbert B., Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Military Liaison Committee to the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Luce, Clare Boothe, Ambassador to Italy until December 1956
  • Luns, J. M. A. H., Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, concurrently with Johan Beyen until October 1956; Minister of Foreign Affairs thereafter
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State until December 1956
  • MacDonald, Sir Malcolm John, British High Commissioner in India and Representative to the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization from 1955
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Minister of Defense until April 1955; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, April–December 1955; Chancellor of the Exchequer, December 1955–January 1957; Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury thereafter
  • Mackenzie King, seeKing, William Lyon Mackenzie
  • Makins, Sir Roger M., British Ambassador to the United States until October 1956; Joint Permanent Secretary of the Treasury thereafter
  • Malagodi, Giovanni F. J., Secretary of the Italian Liberal Party
  • Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilianovich, Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers until February 1955
  • Margérie, seeJacquin de Margérie
  • Marjolin, Robert E., Technical Adviser in the Cabinet of the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from February 1956
  • Martin, Edwin M., Alternate Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council and Deputy Chief of the United States Mission to NATO and European Regional Organizations
  • Martín Artajo, Alberto, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs until February 1957
  • Martino, Gaetano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs until May 1957
  • Massigli, René, Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs, French Foreign Ministry, until July 1956
  • Matthews, H. Freeman, Ambassador to the Netherlands until June 1957; Ambassador to Austria from September 1957
  • Mayer, René, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community from June 1955
  • McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1957
  • McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense from October 1957
  • McLeod, R.W. Scott, Ambassador to Ireland from July 1957
  • McNaughton, General Andrew G. L., Chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission on the St. Lawrence Seaway
  • Meany, George, President of the AFL–CIO from December 1955
  • Menderes, Adnan, Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Mendès-France, Pierre, French Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs until February 1955; Minister of State, February–May 1956
  • Menzies, Robert G., Australian Prime Minister
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 1956; Ambassador to Canada from May 1956
  • Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, 1955
  • Mitchell, James P., Secretary of Labor
  • Moch, Jules, French Permanent Representative to the United Nations Disarmament Commission and Subcommittee
  • Moline, Edwin G., Officer in Charge of Economic Organization Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, May 1956–August 1957; thereafter Deputy Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs
  • Mollet, Guy, Secretary-General of the French Socialist Party; President of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe until January 1956; President of the French Council of Ministers, February 1956–June 1957
  • Molotov, Viacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs until June 1956
  • Monnet, Jean, President of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community until June 1955; Chairman of the Action Committee for a United States of Europe from October 1955
  • Motrico, Count, seeAreilza, José M. de
  • Muccio, John J., Ambassador to Iceland
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Nasser, Gamal Abdul, President of Egypt
  • Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal, Indian Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs
  • Nenni, Pietro, Secretary-General of the Italian Socialist Party
  • Ngo Dinh Diem, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Norman, E. Herbert, Canadian Ambassador to Egypt until April 1957
  • Norstad, General Lauris, Air Deputy, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe, until November 1956; Supreme Allied Commander in Europe thereafter
  • Nutting, Sir Harold Anthony, British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs until October 1956
  • O’Connor, Roderic L., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State until December 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations from December 1955
  • Ohly, John H., Deputy Director for Programs and Planning, International Cooperation Administration
  • Overby, Andrew N., Assistant Secretary of the Treasury until 1957
  • Palewski, M. Gaston, Deputy to the French Prime Minister, February 1955–January 1956; Ambassador to Italy from August 1957
  • Parodi, Alexandre, Secretary-General of the French Foreign Ministry until 1955; Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, May 1955–July 1957; Ambassador to Morocco thereafter
  • Parsons, Marselis C, Jr., Officer in Charge of Northern European Affairs, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State, until 1956; Deputy Director, Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, January 1956–May 1956; thereafter Director
  • Pearkes, General George R., Canadian Minister of Defense from June 1957
  • Pearson, Lester B., Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs until June 1957
  • Pella, Giuseppe, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs from May 1957
  • Perkins, George W., Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, March 1955–October 1957
  • Peterson, Val, Ambassador to Denmark from August 1957
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State until April 1957
  • Pinay, Antoine, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, February 1955–January 1956
  • Pineau, Christian, French Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 1956
  • Plowden, Sir Edwin N., Chairman of the British Atomic Energy Authority
  • Prochnow, Herbert V., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, November 1955–November 1956
  • Quarles, Donald A., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Development until August 1955; Secretary of the Air Force, August 1955–April 1957; thereafter Deputy Secretary of Defense thereafter
  • Queiros, Henrique B. C., Deputy Director General for Political Affairs, Portuguese Foreign Ministry, 1955; thereafter Political Director, Foreign Ministry
  • Rabenold, Ellwood M., Jr., Officer in Charge of Portuguese Affairs, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, until July 1956
  • Radford, Admiral Arthur W., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until August 1957
  • Randall, Clarence B., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Foreign Economic Policy and from July 1956 Chairman of the Council on Foreign Economic Policy
  • Randers, Gunnar, Director of the Norwegian Atomic Energy Institute
  • Rankin, J. Lee, Office of the Legal Counsel, Department of Justice
  • Raynor, G. Hayden, Director of the Office of British Commonwealth and Northern European Affairs, Department of State, until June 1955; thereafter Counselor of the Embassy in Norway
  • Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State from March 1957
  • Reinstein, Jacques J., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until July 1956; thereafter Director of the Office of German Affairs
  • Rhee, Syngman, President of the Republic of Korea
  • Robertson, Norman A., Canadian Ambassador to the United States from May 1957
  • Robertson, Reuben B., Jr., Deputy Secretary of Defense, August 1955–April 1957
  • Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs
  • Ronhovde, Andreas G., Counselor of the Embassy in the Netherlands
  • Rossi-Longhi, Alberto, Secretary General of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Rountree, William M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs from August 1956
  • Roux, Jacques J., Assistant Director General of Political Affairs, French Foreign Ministry, from July 1956
  • Rowan, Thomas L., Second Secretary of the British Treasury
  • Rubottom, Roy R., Jr., Counselor for Economic Affairs of the Embassy in Spain until April 1955; Economic Counselor and Director of the U.S. Operations Mission, April 1955–June 1957
  • St. Laurent, Louis S., Canadian Prime Minister until June 1957
  • Salazar, Antonio Oliviera, Portuguese Prime Minister
  • Sandys, Duncan, British Minister of Defense from January 1957
  • Santos da Costa, Fernando, Portuguese Minister of Defense from February 1955
  • Saragat, Giuseppe, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy until May 1957
  • Saud Ibn Abd al Aziz al-Faisal al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia
  • Scelba, Mario, Italian Prime Minister until July 1955
  • Schaetzel, J. Robert, Office of the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs from August 1955
  • Scott, Sir Robert H., British Minister in the United States until June 1955
  • Segni, Antonio, Italian Prime Minister, July 1955–May 1957
  • Shepilov, Dmitri Trofimovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, June 1956–February 1957
  • Shuckburgh, Charles A. E., British Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until June 1956
  • Smith, Gerard C., Consultant to the Secretary of State until January 1956; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Atomic Energy Affairs, January 1956–October 1957; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning
  • Smith, Brigadier General Harold, Commanding General, Lajens Airfield, Azores
  • Smith, Marshall M., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for International Affairs
  • Smith, Sidney E., Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs from September 1957
  • Spaak, Paul-Henri, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs until May 1957; thereafter Secretary General of NATO
  • Staats, Elmer B., Executive Officer of the Operations Coordinating Board
  • Stassen, Harold E., Director of the Foreign Operations Administration until June 1955; Special Assistant for Disarmament to President Eisenhower from March 1955 and Deputy Representative to the United Nations Disarmament Commission and Subcommittee from August 1955
  • Steel, Sir Christopher, British Permanent Representative to NATO until February 1957; Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany thereafter
  • Stephanopoulos, Stephan, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs until October 1955
  • Strauss, Lewis L., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Strong, L. Corrin, Ambassador to Norway until February 1957
  • Stuart, R. Douglas, Ambassador to Canada until May 1956
  • Sullivan, Charles A., Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until 1957; thereafter Assistant Director for Plans and Readiness, Office of Defense Mobilization
  • Tambroni, Fernando, Italian Minister of Interior from July 1955
  • Tasca, Henry J., Director, U.S. Operations Mission in Italy, until May 1956; First Secretary and Director, Office of Economic Affairs of the Embassy in Italy, May 1956–January 1957; thereafter Economic Counselor and Consul General of the Embassy
  • Taviani, Paolo Emilio, Italian Minister of Defense
  • Templer, Field Marshal Sir Gerald W. R., Chief of the British Imperial General Staff
  • Theotokis, Spyros, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs October 1955–May 1956
  • Thorneycroft, Peter, President of the British Board of Trade until January 1957; Chancellor of the Exchequer thereafter
  • Timmons, Benson E. L., III, First Secretary of the Embassy in France, and Director, U.S. Operations Mission, until July 1955; Minister for Economic Affairs of the Embassy, July–September 1955; thereafter Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Tito, Josip (Josef) Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Togliatti, Palmiro, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party
  • Tuthill, John W., Counselor for Economic Affairs of the Embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany until June 1956; thereafter Counselor for Economic Affairs of the Embassy in France
  • Twining, General Nathan F., Chief of Staff of the Air Force until July 1957; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thereafter
  • Tyler, William R., Deputy Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, July 1955–February 1957; thereafter Director
  • Unger, Leonard, Officer in Charge of Political-Military Affairs, Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, until May 1957
  • Vanoni, Ezio, former Italian Minister of Budget and Finance and Delegate to the Organization for European Economic Cooperation
  • Vimont, Jacques, Minister-Counselor of the French Embassy in the United States until August 1957
  • von Brentano, seeBrentano, Heinrich von
  • Voroshilov, Klimenti Efremovich, Chairman of the Presidium, Central Committee, Supreme Soviet
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in the Soviet Union until October 1956; thereafter Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
  • Washburn, Abbott M., Deputy Director of the United States Information Agency
  • Waugh, Samuel C., Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs until August 1955; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, August 1955–October 1955; thereafter President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank
  • Weeks, Sinclair, Secretary of Commerce
  • White, Francis, Ambassador to Sweden from September 1957
  • Whiteley, General Sir John F. M., Chairman of the British Joint Services Mission in Washington, and Representative of the Standing Group of the Military Committee of NATO until July 1956
  • Whitman, Ann C., President Eisenhower’s Personal Secretary
  • Whitney, John Hay, Ambassador to the United Kingdom from February 1957
  • Wiggin, Charles D., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States from July 1956
  • Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from September 1955
  • Willis, Frances E., Ambassador to Switzerland until May 1957; Ambassador to Norway thereafter
  • Willis, George H., Director of the Office of International Finance, Department of the Treasury
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 1957
  • Xanthaky, Theodore A., Attaché at the Embassy in Portugal
  • Yost, Charles W., Minister-Counselor of the Embassy in France, July 1956–December 1957
  • Young, Kenneth T., Jr., Director of the Office of Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs, Department of State, January 1955–April 1956; Director of the Office of Southeast Asian Affairs thereafter
  • Zellerbach, James D., Ambassador to Italy from February 1957
  • Zoli, Adone, Prime Minister of Italy from June 1957