J.S. Wright

Official portrait of James E. Webb as Under Secretary of State from 1949 to 1952.

President Harry S. Truman shakes hands with Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, as Mrs. Acheson and Under Secretary of State James E. Webb look on. Mr. and Mrs. Acheson were leaving for the Big Three meeting on Western European unity in Paris.

Portrait photograph of Ambassador to Switzerland Richard C. Patterson.

Left to Right: Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, and Under Secretary of State James E. Webb. After Ambassador Patterson takes the oath of office as Ambassador to Switzerland, Mr. Webb congratulates him.

Left to Right: Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, Richard C. Patterson, taking oath of office as Ambassador to Switzerland, and Under Secretary of State James E. Webb.

Left to Right: Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, Richard C. Patterson, and Under Secretary of State James E. Webb. Justice Reed had just administered the oath of office to the new Ambassador to Switzerland Richard C. Patterson.

Left to right: two unidentified men, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, District Commissioner John Russell Young, President Harry S. Truman, the Shah of Iran, and unidentified man. They are at a welcoming ceremony in Washington, D. C.

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Acheson are shown riding in the backseat of a car.

Attending a luncheon are left to right: unidentified, Dean Acheson, Sen. Scott Lucas, Senator Thomas and unidentified.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson shown signing the document of his country in the Opera House in San Francisco during the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.