740.00119 (Potsdam)/7–445
No. 118
Department of State Memorandum
top secret
[Washington,] July 4, 1945.
Revised List of State Department Personnel To Assist the President at the Forthcoming Meeting of Heads of Government
| Number | ||
| (1) | The Secretary of State | 1 |
| (2) | Special Assistants to the Secretary (Mr. Ben V. Cohen, Mr. Donald Russell, and Mr. Walter Brown) | 3 |
| (3) | Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (Mr. William L. Clayton[)] | 1 |
| (4) | Assistant Secretary of State for European, Far Eastern, Near Eastern, and African Affairs (Mr. James Clement Dunn) | 1 |
| (5) | Director, Office of European Affairs (Mr. H. Freeman Matthews) | 1 |
| (6) | The Department’s White House Liaison Officer—Russian Specialist and Interpreter (Mr. Charles E. Bohlen) [Page 143] Additional Russian Specialists and Interpreters (Mr. Llewellyn Thompson and Mr. Edward Page) | 3 |
| (7) | Director, Office of Financial and Development Policy—for general financial and economic questions (Mr. Emilio Collado) | 1 |
| (8) | Chief, Division of Central European Affairs—German Political Questions (Mr. James W. Riddleberger) | 1 |
| (9) | German Economic Specialist—Reparations (Mr. Emile Despres) | 1 |
| (10) | Chief, Division of Southern European Affairs1—Balkan and Italian Questions (Mr. Cavendish W. Cannon) | 1 |
| (11) | Deputy Director, Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs—For Persian, Turkish, Levant and Palestine Questions (Mr. George V. Allen) | 1 |
| (12) | Chief, Division of Chinese Affairs (Mr. John Carter Vincent) | 1 |
| (13) | Special Assistant to Mr. Dunn on Far Eastern Affairs (Mr. Eugene Dooman) | 1 |
| (14) | Adviser on European Advisory Commission (Mr. Philip Mosely) (Mr. Mosely likewise is a Russian and German Specialist) | 1 |
| (15) | Secretary General of Delegation (Mr. Charles Yost) | 1 |
| (16) | Army Liaison Officer (Colonel John Wise) | 1 |
| (17) | Special Assistants | |
| (Mr. R. Borden Reams) | ||
| (Mr. Wilder Foote) | 2 | |
| (18) | Administrative and secretarial staff | |
| (Mr. J. Langdon Ward) | ||
| (Mr. Ralph Graham) | ||
| (Mr. Hunter Martin) | ||
| (Mr. Ralph Fratzke, London Embassy) | ||
| (Mr. Ernest K. Griffin, London Embassy) | ||
| (Mr. John Hrones, Paris Embassy) | ||
| (Mr. Harold N. Waddell, Moscow Embassy) | ||
| (Miss Cassie Connor) | ||
| (Miss Lois Kevan) | ||
| (Miss Theresa Takacs) | ||
| (Miss Dorothy Yovich) | ||
| (Miss Edith Ball) | 12 | |
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In addition it is suggested that Ambassadors Harriman and Murphy be asked to attend the meeting.
- So listed, although Cannon had been assigned as First Secretary at Lisbon effective April 18.↩