Diplomats

Head and shoulders portrait of an older (former Secretary of State) Dean Acheson.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk (fourth from left) stands beside former Secretary of State Dean Acheson (fifth from left) as they greet Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt and Venezuelan First Lady Carmen Valverde de Betancourt. A portrait of Thomas Jefferson hangs behind them. Donor: Raul Nass, Counselor of Venezuelan Embassy.

President Truman announced that John Foster Dulles, his special representative on negotiation of a Japanese Peace Treaty, will return to Tokyo within a few day "for the dual purpose of consulting with Gen. Ridgway and Japanese leaders." Here Mr. Dulles (right) is shown with Secretary of State Dean Acheson after a meeting.

Howland Sargent is sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in a ceremony at the State Department. Left to right: Howland Sargent; his wife, screen star Myrna Loy; John Simmons (administering the oath); and Secretary of State Dean Acheson.

Big Three with staffs around the Conference table. President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Premier Joseph Stalin. Stalin is in white uniform; Truman and Attlee are seated in chairs with decorative carvings on the corners of the back. Others: Vyacheslav Molotov to the left of Stalin. Andrei Gromyko, James Byrnes, and Admiral William D. Leahy to Truman's right. Ernest Bevin in front foreground, back turned. Same as 63-1457-21.

Portrait of Evan M. Wilson used in his oral history interview. Mr. Wilson was Third Secretary and Vice Consul, Mexico City, Mexico, 1942-1943; assigned to the Department of State, January 1943-January 1947; American Secretary, Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry (Palestine), 1945-1946; Assistant Chief of Division of Near Eastern Affairs, 1946-1947; Second Secretary and Vice Consul, later First Secretary and Consul, Tehran, Iran, March 1947-June 1949; Consul General, Calcutta, India, 1950-1953; First Secretary, London, England, 1953-1957. Donor: Evan M. Wilson.

United States Ambassador Irving Florman (right), and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia, Pedro Zilveti Arce (right on sofa), at the signing of the Point Four Agreement between Bolivia and the United States in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, La Paz, Bolivia. Others in the photo are unidentified.

United States Ambassador Irving Florman (left), and Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia Pedro Zilveti Arce (right), sign the Point Four agreement between Bolivia and the United States in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, La Paz, Bolivia. Others in the photo are unidentified.

Signing of the Point Four Agreement between Bolivia and the United States in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, La Paz, Bolivia, by Irving Florman (left), United States Ambassador to Bolivia, and Pedro Zilveti Arce (seated on sofa, right), Chancellor of the Republic of Bolivia. Others in the photo are unidentified.

Mr. Myron C. Taylor, Personal Representative of the President to Pope Pius XII, 1939-1950, and Personal Representative of the President on Special Missions, 1950-1952.