Ambassadors

The Minister of National Defense of Uruguay (second from right) proposes a toast after he delivered a speech at a luncheon at Cantegril Country Club, Punta del Este, Uruguay. Also present is United States Navy Rear Admiral James Foskett (second from left), Lieutenant Commander Galimberto (third from left), and United States Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis Briggs (right). Others are unidentified.

United States Navy officers and Uruguayan military officers gather at the Laguna del Sauce Naval Air Station in Uruguay. United States Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis Briggs is third from the right. Others are unidentified.

Rear Admiral James Foskett (fourth from right) and other members of his party await the transportation that will continue to take them on their journey from Laguna del Sauce Naval Air Station to Punta del Este, Uruguay. They made a brief stop for snacks at a villa. Also present is the Minister of National Defense of Uruguay (fifth from right) and the United States Ambassador to Uruguay, Ellis Briggs (sixth from right). All others are unidentified.

His British Majesty's Ambassador to Brazil Sir Neville Butler (second from right) calls on Rear Admiral James Foskett (far right) on board the USS Huntington. Other sailors and military officers in the background are unidentified.

United States Navy officers and other members of their party pose at the Laguna del Sauce Naval Air Station in Uruguay. Rear Admiral James Foskett is fourth from the right. United States Ambassador to Uruguay Ellis Briggs is second from the right. All others are unidentified.

View which includes Stanley Woodward on the left and Charles S. Murphy in baseball cap to his right. Mr. Woodward was President Harry S. Truman's Chief of Protocol at the State Department, 1946-1950 and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Canada, 1950-1953. Mr. Murphy was President Truman's Administrative Assistant, 1947-1950 and Special Counsel to the President, 1950-1953. The sailor in view is not identified. The location is believed to be the destroyer Epperson and the visit occurred during a Key West, Florida trip.

Standing outside together in this photograph are the following left to right: Charles S. Murphy, Administrative Assistant to President Truman; Stanley Woodward, Chief of Protocol at the State Department; and William Hassett, President Truman's Correspondence Secretary. It is believed that they may be standing on or near the destroyer Epperson while on a trip to Key West, Florida.

Unidentified people boarding an airplane. Ambassador Stanton Griffis may be second from right. The letters visible on the plane are --"MAND".

Unidentified people stand with Stanton Griffis, far right, outside a building.

Ambassador Stanton Griffis reads his speech in English, without an interpreter, to President Boleslaw Bierut at the Presentation of Credentials ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland.