Ambassadors

Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer (foreground, center) is standing with other unidentified conference attendees at Baguio, Philippines.

Ambassador at Large Chester Bowles exiting a vehicle at the Baguio Conference in Baguio, Philippines.

General Wade H. Haislip presents the Legion of Merit to Cuban Major General Ruperto Cabrera and Cuban Brigadier General Quirino Uria at the Pentagon. From left to right: General Haislip, Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, Major General Cabrera, Brigadier General Uria, and Cuban Ambassador to the United States Luis Machado.

German Ambassador York Wendland (left), United States Economic Counselor Arthur Z. Gardiner (center), and a man identified as Shei Pei Quen chatting over drinks at the BNCI Opening, somewhere in Vietnam.

United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, Frederick Nolting (left), leaning against a boat talking to the unidentified district chief in Pho Quoc, Vietnam.

President Harry S. Truman welcomes General George Marshall and William Pawley to The Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Admiral William Leahy; Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson; President Truman; General Marshall; William Pawley.

John R. Steelman is attending the founding of the Inter-American Cultural and Trade Center in Miami, Florida. Standing, from left to right: Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, and Congressman George Smathers. Seated, left to right: John R. Steelman, unidentified man, and Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer.

First Lady Bess Truman (third from left) and Madame Henri Bonnet, wife of the French Ambassador to the United States (right) greet unidentified ladies at the French Embassy on the occasion of the House and Embassy Tour.

From left to right President Ngo Dinh Diem, Mr. Vu Van Thai, Leland Burrows and Ambassador Elbridge Durbrow standing in the Presidential Palace in Vietnam. They are attending a party for Mr. Barrows, who is departing as the United States Operations Mission Director in Vietnam. Others are unidentified.

Guests seated at the table for a dinner party at the Presidential Palace in Saigon, Vietnam, in honor of the departing United States Operations Mission Director Leland Barrows. Clockwise, starting at the head of the table in the lower left corner: President Ngo Dinh Diem; Mabel (Mrs. Leland) Barrows; Mr. Ha Van Vuong; Mrs. Smuckler; Mr. Vu Van Thai; Mr. Smuckler; Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thuan; Mrs. Ha Van Vuong; United States Ambassador to Vietnam Elbridge Durbrow; Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu.