Ambassadors

President of France Vincent Auriol (seated, right) looks at an album of National Parks photographs that President Harry S. Truman (seated, left) presented to him. Also pictured, standing left to right: Secretary of State Dean Acheson; Foreign Minister of France Robert Schuman; French Ambassador Henri Bonnet; Special Assistant to the President W. Averell Harriman; and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

President Harry S. Truman (foreground, third from left) introduces President of France Vincent Auriol (foreground, third from right) to First Lady Bess W. Truman (foreground, second from left) and Margaret Truman (foreground, left). Also pictured, foreground: Madame Michelle Auriol (second from right) and John F. Simmons, Chief of Protocol (right). Background, left to right: General Robert Landry; Admiral Robert Dennison; General Harry Vaughan; and French Ambassador Henri Bonnet (partly obscured). From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Edgar Morris, President of the Washington Board of Trade (at podium) gives a welcoming address for President Auriol of France. Front row, left to right: Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet, Vice President Alben Barkley, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, President Harry S. Truman, French President Vincent Auriol, District Commissioner John R. Young, unidentified (behind Morris), First Lady Bess W.

President of France Vincent Auriol (left) and President Harry S. Truman arrive at the Blair House during President Auriol's visit to Washington, D.C. Also pictured: French Ambassador Henri Bonnet (behind Auriol). All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

From left to right: Foreign Minister Robert Schuman; President of France Vincent Auriol; and French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet at the White House during their visit to Washington, D.C. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (right) speaks at a dinner in Howard University's Frazier Hall for the honorary degree recipients from the 1949 Commencement. Also pictured: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian Ambassador to the United States and Mexico (fourth from left); and Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President, Howard University (fourth from right). All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

From left to right: Miss Esther Herlitz; Mrs. Zehava Elath; Eliahu Elath, Israeli Ambassador to the United States; Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; and Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman at an unidentified event. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (left), Senior Director of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dr. Mordecai Johnson (right), President of Howard University in Washington, D.C. All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (left), Indian Ambassador to the United States and Mexico, receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Also pictured: Dr. Mordecai Johnson, President, Howard University (right); and Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (seated, front row, right). All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

John O'Donnell (second from right) is sworn in as a Commissioner of the Philippine War Damage Commission. Also pictured: Under Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (left); Judge Richmond B. Keech (second from left); and Joaquin M. Elizalde, Filipino Ambassador to the United States. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook