Office of the Historian

500.CC/8–144

The British Chargé (Campbell) to the Secretary of State

No. 473
Washington, August 1, 1944.

Sir: I have the honour to inform you under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that The Honourable Sir Alexander Cadogan, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed to lead the United Kingdom Delegation to the Conference at Dumbarton Oaks.

The principal members of the Delegation in addition to Sir Alexander Cadogan will be:

  • Sir W. Malkin,52 G.C.M.G., C.B., K.C. (the Legal Adviser, Foreign Office);
  • Admiral Sir Percy Noble,53
  • Lieutenant General G. N. Macready,54
  • Air Marshal Sir William Welch,55
  • Mr. Gladwyn Jebb, C.M.G., (Foreign Office Secretary-General)56
  • Mr. A. H. Poynton, (Colonial Office)
  • Colonel Capel Dunn, (War Cabinet Offices)57
  • Mr. Peter Loxley, (Private Secretary to Sir A. Cadogan)
  • Professor Webster, (Foreign Office)58
  • Mr. Paul Falla, (Foreign Office).59

The secretariat accompanying the Delegation will be composed of Miss Cole-Hamilton, Miss Thomas and Miss Collard.

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It is expected that the Delegation will arrive in the United States, by sea, at New York on or about August 11th. Any further particulars which may be received about the Delegation will be communicated to the Department as soon as they are received. It is possible that additions may still be made to the personnel of the Delegation.60

I have [etc.]

Ronald I. Campbell
  1. Sir William Malkin.↩
  2. Head of British Naval Delegation in Washington since 1942.↩
  3. Maj. Gen. Gordon N. Macready, Chief of British Army Staff in Washington since 1942; his assistant was Maj. Gen. M. F. Grove-White.↩
  4. Head of Royal Air Force Delegation in Washington since 1943.↩
  5. Gladwyn Jebb, Councillor, Foreign Office, Secretary General of the British Delegation.↩
  6. Military Assistant Secretary of the War Cabinet.↩
  7. Charles K. Webster, Research Department of the Foreign Office; professor of international history, London School of Economics since 1932.↩
  8. Economic and Reconstruction Department of the Foreign Office.↩
  9. Two additional members listed in Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation were: Paul Gore-Booth, First Secretary, British Embassy, and A. R. K. Mackenzie, Press Officer.↩