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Attlee and Byrnes shaking hands after Attlee's arrival in Washington

73-2092A
Accession Number
73-2092A
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Printer-Friendly Version
NAID 338955282
Keywords
Airports
Ambassadors
Armed forces officers
Cabinet officers
Prime ministers
Visitors, Foreign
HST Keywords
Airports - Washington National
People Pictured
Attlee, C. R. (Clement Richard), 1883-1967
Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of, 1881-1959
Vaughan, Harry H., 1893-1981
Rights

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Credit:
Abbie Rowe
National Park Service

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (third from right foreground) shaking hands with Secretary of State James Byrnes (foreground, second from right) after arriving at the National Airport in Washington, D.C. In the right foreground is President Harry S. Truman's military aide, Harry Vaughan. In the foreground on the left is Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States. Others are unidentified.
Date(s)
November 10, 1945