Ambassadors

Getulio Vargas (man in the grey suit shaking hands), President of Brazil, and United States Ambassador Herschel V. Johnson (man in the dark suit shaking hands) with city of Detroit Board of Commerce.

From left to right: Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin; interpreter Charles Bohlen (mostly obscured by Stalin); V. N. Pavlov, Stalin's interpreter; Captain James Vardaman; President Harry S. Truman; Press Secretary Charles Ross (background, partly obscured); Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko; Secretary of State James Byrnes; and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. This photo was taken during Truman's visit to Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

President Harry S. Truman visits Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin at Mr. Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. From left to right on the balcony: unidentified man; Major General Harry Vaughan (partly obscured); Secretary of State James Byrnes; Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko (behind Byrnes); President Truman; Premier Josef Stalin; and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. All others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State James Byrnes visit Premier Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union at Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference in Germany. On the balcony in the foreground are, left to right: Secretary of State Byrnes, President Truman, Premier Stalin, and Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet foreign minister General Harry H. Vaughan is in the background, second from the left. Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko is in the background, behind James Byrnes. All others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Left to right: General Harry Vaughan, Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov during Truman's visit at Premier Stalin's residence during the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

Secretary of State James Byrnes (left) is greeted at the airport en route to the Potsdam Conference by Soviet Ambassador to the United States Andrei Gromyko (center) and Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Andrey Vyshinsky (right). From Potsdam album, 1945.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes and Charles Sawyer, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, ride together in an open car from Antwerp, to Brussels. President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes have just arrived in Antwerp en route to Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

From left to right, Admiral Harold Stark, Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer, and Ambassador Charles Sawyer walk to the docks at Antwerp, Belgium to meet President Harry S. Truman who has just arrived on the U. S. S. Augusta en route to attending the Potsdam Conference in Germany. From Potsdam album, 1945.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Ambassador to Belgium Charles Sawyer in a car after President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes arrived in Antwerp, Belgium en route to Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. From Potsdam album, 1945.

General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (foreground, left) chats with President Harry S. Truman (foreground, second from right) and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes (right) at an airfield in Brussels, Belgium en route to Potsdam, Germany for the Potsdam conference. United States Ambassador to Belgium Charles Sawyer is in the background on the left. Others are unidentified. From Potsdam album, 1945.