Diplomats

Interior view showing W. Averell Harriman seated on the lower right. He may be meeting with the mayor of Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan, while touring various regions during his trip to the Soviet Union. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev.

View with W. Averell Harriman on the right seated with an unidentified man in what appears to be a piece of mining equipment. He is touring at what appears to be a mining operation believed to be located in Kazakhstan. It may have been an ore mining operation in Rudniy. He also visited Karaganda which is known for coal mining. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the right. The other man in view is not identified. Exact location not given but Harriman may have been having a meal (breakfast?) while in the eastern part of the Soviet Union, perhaps in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing second from the right. His interpreter is probably on the far right and the other man is unidentified. Exact location not given but Harriman may have been having a meal (breakfast?) while in the eastern part of the Soviet Union, perhaps in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

The United States Ambassador to South Vietnam Elbridge Durbrow (center), is standing with Mr. Parsons and Mr. Ladensky at the Saigon River Bridge in Vietnam.

Arthur Z. Gardiner, Economic Counselor of the United States Embassy in South Vietnam (tall man on left wearing a bow tie) is walking near a train engine at a railroad station in Saigon, Vietnam with unidentified people.

Arthur Z. Gardiner, Economic Counselor at the United States Embassy in South Vietnam (foreground left, back to camera) is walking along a dirt path with an unidentified dignitary, and J.W. Howe in Jappau, Vietnam. Others in the background at this unknown event are unidentified.

Arthur Gardiner, Economic Counselor at the United States Embassy in South Vietnam (left) and two unidentified men along a parked motorcade on a dirt road somewhere in South Vietnam.

Arthur Gardiner, Economic Counselor at the United States Embassy in South Vietnam (background, in light suit and bow tie) is standing in a large open field with the President of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem (foreground, holding cane) and other unidentified officials and military officers.