Visits of state

President Harry S. Truman (left) shakes hands with Cuban Ambassador Guillermo Belt (right) at a reception at the Cuban Embassy. Also present is Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras (center). In the background mostly obscured by the Ambassador, is First Lady Bess W. Truman.

President Harry S. Truman, President Carlos Prio Socarras of Cuba, First Lady Bess W. Truman, and Mrs. Guillermo Belt, wife of the Cuban Ambassador, are standing in a receiving line a reception given in President Prio Socarras' honor at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and President Carlos Prio Socarras of Cuba (right) at the reception at the Cuban Embassy in honor of President Prio Socarras' visit to the United States. Others in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (standing on the ground at the stairs) welcomes Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras as he disembarks from the presidential plane Independence at Washington National Airport. He is in Washington, D.C. for a state visit. All others are unidentified.

From left to right, President Carlos Prio Socarras, Mr. Joseph Short, President of the National Press Club, and Mr. Robert Butler, U.S. Ambassador to Cuba attend a luncheon given in honor of President Prio Socarras at the National Press Club.

Cuban President Carlos Prio Socarras (left) and Major General Hobart Gay (right) stand at attention during the National Anthems of Cuba and America at Arlington National Cemetery in front of the Memorial to the battleship Maine. Soldiers in the background are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (center left) with President of Brazil Eurico Gaspar Dutra (center right) are standing as they review a Brazilian Independence Day parade. Standing on the left of President Truman is First Lady Bess W. Truman. Margaret Truman is second from the left, waving. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman and President Miguel Aleman of Mexico are "trooping the line" as they review troops at the National Airport in Washington, D.C. after the arrival of President Aleman. President Truman, left, and President Aleman, right, are in civilian clothes at the front of the line. Following behind, left to right, are Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, Rear Admiral James Foskett, Fleet Admiral William Leahy, Major General Harry Vaughan (partly obscured), and Rear Admiral J. Cary Jones. All other men in uniform are unidentified.

Bess Truman lunches with crew of the U.S.S. Missouri, returning from a trip to Rio de Janeiro. From the album, President Truman's Trip to Rio de Janeiro.

President Harry S. Truman (second from right) talks with an unidentified officer on board the USS Missouri. Also present are (left to right) James Foskett, William Hassett, Matthew J. Connelly, and John R. Steelman. President Truman and members of his party are on board the USS Missouri as they return to the United States from an official visit to Rio de Janeiro.