Diplomats

Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin meeting at Potsdam. From left to right, row 1 : Joseph Stalin, Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Second row: General Harry Vaughan, interpreter Charles Bohlen, interpreter V. N. Pavlov (mostly obscured by Truman), Captain James K. Vardaman, and Charles Ross (partially obscured).

Portrait of Edwin M. Martin which was used in his oral History interview. During the Truman Administration, was Chief, Division of Japanese and Korean Economic Affairs, Department of State, 1945-47; Chief, Division of Occupied Area Economic Affairs, 1947-48; Deputy Director, Office of International Trade Policy, 1948-49; Director, Office of European Regional Affairs, 1949-52; and Special Assistant to Secretary of State for Mutual Security Affairs, 1952-53.

Portrait of W. John Kenney which was used in his oral History interview. Special Assistant to Under Secretary of the Navy, Chairman, Navy Price Adjustment Board, and General Counsel, 1941-46; Under Secretary of Navy, 1947-49; Chief of Mission, Economic Cooperation Administration, in England, 1949-50; Deputy Director for Mutual Security, 1952.

H. Freeman Matthews, career in the U.S. Department of State, 1923-62. Director, Office of European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 1944-47; accompanied President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Yalta Conference, 1945; served as a political adviser at the Potsdam Conference, 1945, meeting of Foreign Ministers in Moscow (1945), Paris (1946), New York (1946), Moscow (1947), and at the Paris Peace Conference (1946); Ambassador to Sweden, 1947-50, Deputy Under Secretary of State, 1950-53; and later ambassadorial posts.

Brigadier General Paul H. Griffith, personal assistant to Under Secretary of War Louis Johnson and, as a member of the American Technical Mission to India, an Assistant to Mr. Johnson when he was the personal representative of the President in the Middle East, 1942. Served as Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1949-50.

George C. McGhee, Director, U.S. Commercial Co., 1946; Special Assistant to Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of State, 1946-47; Coordinator for Aid to Greece and Turkey, 1947; Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State, 1947-49; Special Assistant to Secretary of State, March-June 1949; Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern South Asian-African Affairs, 1949-51; and U.S. Ambassador and Chief of American Mission for Aid to Turkey, 1951-53. Also served as Senior Adviser, North Atlantic Treaty Council, Ottawa, Canada, 1951.

Portrait of Paul R. Porter, used in the 1980 Conference, "The Conduct of Foreign Policy during the Truman Administration." Mr. Porter was Deputy Chief, then Chief, Mission for Economic Affairs, American Embassy, London, 1945-47, Chief, U. S. delegate, Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, 1947-49; Chief, Economic Cooperation Administration Mission to Greece, 1949-50; Assistant Administrator, Economic Cooperation Administration, 1950-51; U. S. Special Representative in Europe, Marshall Plan, 1951; Deputy, U. S.

William M. Rountree, Staff Officer on the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, 1945-46; special assistant to the director, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs, Department of State, 1946-48; member of the American Economic Mission to Greece, 1947; diplomatic service in Greece, 1948-49, Turkey, 1952-53, and Iran, 1953-55; Deputy Director, 1949-50, and Director, 1952, Office of Greek, Turkish and Iranian Affairs, Department of State.

Portrait of John H. Ohly which was used in his Oral History at the Truman Library.

Portrait of Harding Bancroft which was used in his oral History interview. Chief, Division of United Nations Political Affairs, Department of State, 1945, later Director, Office of United Nations Political and Security Affairs; U.S. Deputy Representative U.N. Collective Measures Committee with personal rank of Minister, 1950-53. Served as an assistant to the U.N. commission that investigated the Greek crisis in 1947.