Ambassadors

General Graves B. Erskine, on left, a man believed to be the mayor of Hanoi, Vietnam and Ambassador Donald R. Heath, on right, at the Tea Party given by the Mayor of Hanoi for the delegation of the Melby Erskine Mission to Southeast Asia.

Ambassador Donald R. Heath, General Graves B. Erskine and John F. Melby upon arrival at Hanoi, Vietnam. The man behind General Erskine is unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman welcomes General George Marshall and William Pawley to The Little White House while on vacation in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Admiral William Leahy; Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson; President Truman; General Marshall; William Pawley.

President Harry S. Truman (left) receives an honorary scroll of membership from the Royal Netherlands Choral Society as a tribute to the American soldiers who occupied Maastricht, the first Netherlands town to be liberated from the Germans. Presenting the scroll are Colonel Edward W. Gould (middle) and the Ambassador from Holland Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (right).

United States Ambassador to Spain Robert F. Woodward (center, in glasses) visits the United States Fair building in Madrid, Spain, with General Francisco Franco (second from right). Also present is Agricultural Attache Ivy Duggan (in background, fourth from left). All others are unidentified. This group is leaving the U.S. Fair Building in Madrid, Spain. Among them in the center with glasses is Ambassador Woodward, second from the right is Franco, and fourth from the left is Ivy W. Duggan.

Ivy W. Duggan (center right, with badge on his pocket) accompanies Generalissimo Francisco Franco (center), the Ambassador of the United States to Spain Robert F. Woodward (in glasses next to Duggan), and the Secretary of Agriculture of Spain while they visit the U.S. Fair Building in Madrid, Spain. All others are unidentified.

United States Ambassador Robert F. Woodward (foreground, second from right) pays a visit to the United States Fair Building in Madrid, Spain with President of Spain Francisco Franco (third from right) and United States Agricultural Attache Ivy Duggan (background, between Franco and Woodward). All others are unidentified.

Conferring with his chief Advisors on International Affairs, President Harry S. Truman decided that the European Recovery Program, or the Marshall Plan, be continued on a large scale. Seated in President Truman's office from left to right are President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State George Marshall, Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman, and Ambassador W. Averell Harriman. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.

Left to right: Perle Mesta, unidentified boy, Margaret Truman, and Anna Rosenberg. They are in New York City, in the Park Sheraton Hotel.

As part of the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of Cuban National hero, Jose Marti, high military men of the United States were presented with decorations on behalf of the Cuban government. The awards were made by Cuban Ambassador to the United States, Dr. Luis Machado at the Cuban Embassy. Left to right: Brigadier General Robert Landry, Rear Admiral Robert Dennison, General J. Lawton Collins, Dr. Luis Machado, General Wade Hampton Haislip, Major General Harry Vaughan, and Major General Wallace Graham. Others in the background are unidentified.