Office of the Historian

List of Persons

  • 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 individual usually held the position throughout the period covered by the volume.
  • Achilles, Theodore C., Minister in France until August 1956
  • Adams, Sherman, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Adenauer, Konrad, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany and, until May 1955, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Anderson, Dillon, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
  • Anderson, Robert B., Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Armour, Norman, Jr., adviser on political and security affairs to the Delegation at the U.N. General Assembly
  • Arnold, Lieutenant General William H., Commanding General, U.S. Forces in Austria
  • Baillou, Jean, Deputy Director of the Cultural Affairs Section, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Barbour, Walworth, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Beam, Jacob D., Director, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, from March 13, 1955; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from October 23, 1955; Ambassador to Poland from June 27, 1957
  • Bebler, Dr. Ales, Yugoslav Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs through 1955; thereafter Ambassador to France
  • Bérard, Armand, Diplomatic Counselor to the President of the French Council from March 1955
  • Beria, Lavrentiy P., Deputy Chairman of Soviet Council of Ministers until June 1953; Minister of Internal Affairs, March 1953–June 1953; deposed and executed in 1953
  • Bischoff, Norbert, Austrian Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Bohlen, Charles E., Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Bowie, Robert R., Director of the Policy Planning Staff, Department of State; from August 1955, Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning and Department of State Representative on the NSC Planning Board
  • Brkic, Hasan, Yugoslav President of the Committee for Foreign Trade
  • Brownell, Herbert, Jr., Attorney General of the United States
  • Bulganin, Nikolai A., Deputy Chairman of Soviet Council of Ministers until February 8, 1955; thereafter Chairman
  • Burns, Major General E. L. M., Commander, U.N. Truce Supervisory Organization
  • Cabell, Lieutenant General Charles P., USAF, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Caccia, Sir Harold, British Deputy Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until November 1956; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Carney, Admiral Robert B., USN, Chief of Naval Operations until August 1955
  • Cassady, Admiral John H. USN, Commander in Chief, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Naval Forces
  • Chauvel, Jean, French Ambassador to Austria until February 1955; thereafter Ambassador to the United States
  • Chervenkov, Vulko, Bulgarian Prime Minister until April 17,1956, thereafter Minister of Culture
  • Colbert, James L., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • Collins, General J. Lawton, USA, Representative to the Military Committee and Standing Group of NATO through 1956; Director and Vice Chairman of President’s Committee for Hungarian Relief, 1957
  • Compton, Arthur A., Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State, from April 1955
  • Coulot, François, French Ambassador to Yugoslavia
  • Couve de Murville, Maurice, French Ambassador to the United States
  • Crawford, William A., Deputy Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State
  • Crouy-Chanel, Etienne de, Director General for Political Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Dale, William N., Officer in Charge of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Department of State
  • Dapčević, Colonel General Peko, member of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia
  • Davis, Vice Admiral A.C., USN, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Dedijer, Vladimir, official biographer of Tito; associate of Djilas; expelled from the Yugoslav Communist Party, April 10, 1955
  • de Margerie, see Jacquin de Margerie
  • Dillon, C. Douglas, Ambassador to France through January 1957; Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, March 1957
  • Djilas, Milovan, former President of Yugoslav Federal People–s Assembly; jailed for espousing Hungarian revolt
  • Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
  • Dulles, Eleanor, Special Assistant, Office of German Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State
  • Eden, Sir Anthony, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs until April 1955; thereafter Prime Minister
  • Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
  • Eisenhower, Major John S. D., USA, Personal Assistant to and son of the President
  • Elbrick, C. Burke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
  • Faure, Edgar, French Prime Minister from February 1955
  • Fawzi, Mahmoud, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Fechteler, Admiral William M., USN, Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe, until July 1956; thereafter consultant to the Secretary of Defense on security matters
  • Figl, Leopold, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Franco y Bahamonde, General Francisco, Spanish Head of State
  • Freers, Edward L., Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State, from July 15, 1956
  • Freund, Richard B., Officer in Charge of Austrian Affairs, Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Galloway, William J., Special Assistant to the Counselor of the Department of State
  • Genevey, General Pierre, Controller General of the Army, French Ministry of National Defense
  • George, Walter F., Senator; Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Gero, Erno, Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister through July 1956; member of Council of Ministers Presidium, 1956; Secretary of Hungarian Working People’s Party, October–November 1956; exiled November 1956
  • Gerstenmaier, Eugen K. A., President of the West German Bundestag
  • Gleason, S. Everett, Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Goodkind, Louis W., Chief of the Economic Defense Division, Department of State
  • Goodpaster, General Andrew J., USA (Brigadier General after 1956), White House Staff Secretary
  • Gosnjak, General Ivan, Yugoslav Minister of Defense
  • Gray, Gordon, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Greene, Joseph N., Jr., Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, from September 9, 1956; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, from October 21, 1957
  • Gromyko, Andrei A., Soviet First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs until February 14, 1957; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Gruber, Karl, Austrian Ambassador to the United States
  • Gruenther, General Alfred M., USA, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
  • Haines, General Ralph E., Jr., USA, Chief of the American Military Assistance Staff in Yugoslavia
  • Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Hancock, Patrick F., Head of the Central Department, British Foreign Office, until September 1955; thereafter Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Harrison, Sir Geoffrey W., Assistant British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Hayter, Sir William G., British Ambassador to the Soviet Union
  • Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State from February 21, 1957; Secretary of State from April 22, 1959
  • Hill, Robert B., Office of Eastern European Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State
  • Hood, Viscount Samuel, Head of the Western Organizations Department, British Foreign Office
  • Hooker, Robert G., Jr., Counselor of the Embassy in Yugoslavia through 1956
  • Hoover, Herbert, Jr., Under Secretary of State; Chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board
  • Humo, Avdo, Yugoslav Minister of Finance
  • Humphrey, George M., Secretary of the Treasury
  • Iveković, Mladen, Yugoslav Ambassador to West Germany through 1956; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Jackson, C. D., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower, February 1953–March 1954
  • Jackson, William H., Special Assistant to Secretary of State Dulles, September–November 1955
  • Jacquin de Margerie, Roland, Assistant Director General for Political and Economic Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, until June 1955; thereafter Director General
  • Jones, John Wesley, Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Jurgenson, Jean, Acting Chief of the Central European Section, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from May 1955
  • Karamanlis, Constantine G., Greek Prime Minister from October 6, 1955
  • Kardelj, Edvard, Senior Vice President of Yugoslavia
  • Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Kidd, Coburn B., Officer in Charge of German Political Affairs, Office of German Affairs, Department of State, until September 1955; thereafter Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of German Affairs
  • Killen, James S., Chief of the U.S. Operations Mission in Yugoslavia until August 1956
  • Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone A., British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Knight, Ridgway B., State Department Liaison at the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), until May 14, 1955; thereafter Consul General of the Embassy in France until January 29, 1957
  • Korner, General Theodor, President of Austria
  • Kosanovich, Sav, member, Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia
  • Laskey, Denis, private secretary to British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
  • Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council
  • Lederer, Lajos, correspondent for Eastern Europan affairs with the London Observer
  • Leishman, Frederick J., First Secretary of the British Embassy in the United States
  • Leverich, Henry P., Officer in Charge of Balkan Affairs, Office of Eastern European Affairs, Department of State; Deputy Director of that office from October 7, 1956
  • Lloyd, Selwyn, British Minister of Supply until April 1955; Minister of Defense, April 1955–December 1955; thereafter Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Lyon, Cecil B., Director of the Office of German Affairs, Department of State, until May 1955
  • MacArthur, Douglas, II, Counselor of the Department of State until December 1956; thereafter Ambassador to Japan
  • Macmillan, Harold, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from April to December 1955
  • Makins, Sir Rober M., British Ambassador to the United States
  • Maffitt, Edward P., First Secretary of the Embassy in Italy until July 7, 1956
  • Malenkov, Georgi M., Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers through February 8, 1955; thereafter Deputy Chairman and Minister of Power Stations; member of the Central Committee
  • Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of the People’s Republic of China
  • Mark, David E., Second Secretary for Consular Affairs of the Embassy in Romania until June 16,1957; thereafter First Secretary for Consular Affairs of the Embassy in the Soviet Union
  • Martin, Edwin M., Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State, until October 1955
  • Mates, Leo, Yugoslav Ambassador to the United States
  • McCardle, Carl W., Assistant Seretary of State for Public Affairs until March 1957
  • McCarthy, Joseph R., Republican Senator from Wisconsin
  • Mendès-France, Pierre, French Prime Minister until February 1955
  • Menderes, Adnan, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Turkey
  • Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until May 6, 1956; thereafter Ambassador to Canada
  • Micunović, Veljko, Yugoslav Ambassador to Soviet Union from March 1956
  • Mikoyan, Anastas Ivanovich, First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, 1955
  • Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs until May 1956
  • Mooney, Edward Cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit
  • Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Nasser, Lieutenant Colonel Gamal Abdel, President of Egypt from June 1956
  • Nehru, Jawaharlal, Indian Prime Minister
  • Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
  • Nu, U, Burmese Prime Minister
  • Palmer, Joseph, 2d, Acting Director of the Office of European Regional Affairs, Department of State
  • Perkins, George W., Permanent Representative at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Phleger, Herman, Legal Adviser of the Department of State
  • Pijade, Mosa, member of the Yugoslav Communist Party Executive Committee
  • Pinay, Antoine, French Foreign Minister through 1956
  • Popović, Koca, Yugoslav Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
  • Popović, Nenad, Yugoslav Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • Prica, Srdja, Yugoslav Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from April 1955
  • Primozić, Franz, Yugoslav Government Minister
  • Raab, Julius, Chancellor of Austria
  • Radford, Admiral Arthur W., USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until August 1957
  • Rakosi, Matyas, member of the Hungarian Presidential Council, 1955–1956; First Secretary of the Hungarian Communist Party, 1956
  • Ranković, Aleksandar, Vice President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia
  • Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State, from March 14, 1957
  • Reinstein, Jacques J., Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until August 1955; thereafter Director of the Office of German Affairs
  • Riddleberger, James W., Ambassador to Yugoslavia
  • Roberts, Sir Frank K., British Ambassador to Yugoslavia
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A., Special Assistant to President Eisenhower
  • Russell, Francis H., Special Assistant to the Secretary of State from September 1955
  • Sauvagnargues, Jean Victor, Technical Adviser in the Personal Cabinet of French Foreign Minister Pinay
  • Selassie, Haile, Emperor of Ethiopia
  • Shepilov, Dmitri Trofimovich, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, June 1956–February 1957
  • Sobolev, Arkady Aleksandrovich, Soviet Representative on the United Nations Disarmament Subcommittee
  • Sokolovskii, Marshal Vasili Danilovich, Soviet First Deputy Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff
  • Soutou, Jean, Chief of the Division of Central European Economic Affairs, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Sprague, Mansfield D., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
  • Staats, Elmer B., Executive Secretary of the Operations Coordinating Board
  • Stassen, Harold E., Director of the Foreign Operations Administration until June 1955; special assistant to President Eisenhower for disarmament matters from March 1955
  • Stepinac, Aloysius Cardinal, Archbishop of Zagreb
  • Strauss, Admiral Lewis L., Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission
  • Streibert, Theodore C., Director of the U.S. Information Agency
  • Sullivan, Charles A., Chief of the Policy Division, Office of Foreign Military Affairs, Department of Defense
  • Thompson, Llewellyn E., High Commissioner to Austria until May 1955; thereafter Ambassador to Austria
  • Thurston, Ray L., Director of the Office of Western European Affairs, Department of State
  • Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, President of Yugoslavia
  • Todorovic, Mijalko, member, Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia
  • Twining, General Nathan F., USAF, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, until 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, from July 1955
  • Unger, Leonard, Officer in Charge of Politico-Military Affairs, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State, until May 4, 1957; thereafter Office of the Counselor
  • Vasiliy, Alekseyevich V., Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia
  • Vidic, Dobrivoje, Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1955
  • Vilfan, Dr. Joza, Secretary General to President Tito
  • Vukmanovic-Tempo, Svetozr N., Vice President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia; also Chairman of the Council for the National Economy
  • Wallner, Woodruff, Counselor of the Embassy in France and Political Adviser to the European Command, Paris
  • Walmsley, Walter N., Jr., Counselor of the Embassy in the Soviet Union
  • Waters, General John K., USA, Chief, American Military Assistance Staff in Yugoslavia
  • Whitman, Ann C., Personal Secretary to President Eisenhower
  • Wilson, Charles E., Secretary of Defense until October 1957
  • Wyszynski, Stefan Cardinal, Primate of Poland
  • Zhukov, Marshal Georgi K., Soviet Minister of Defense, February 1955–October 1957