Diplomacy

Edwin A. Locke, Jr's team prepare to leave Peiping. Men are unidentified. Mr. Locke is the President's personal representative to China.

Chinese honor guard for Edwin A. Locke, Jr. and his team. Edwin Locke, Jr. was a personal representative of the President to China. They are in Peiping.

Edwin A. Locke, Jr., right, tours the Shetsing Shan iron works near Peiping. He is a personal representative of the President to China.

Edwin A. Locke, Jr.'s team prepare to leave Peiping and bid farewell to their Chinese hosts.

Edwin A. Locke, Jr., tall man in center, tours the Shetsing Shan iron works near Peiping. He is the President's personal representative to China.

White Cloud Airport at Canton. Photo is on a postcard embossed with Chinese characters and the words "Mayfair Canton." Possibly members of Edwin Locke's China Mission party below plane.

Unidentified group of men in China during Donald M. Nelson's Mission to China. Sign over door reads, "Chialing House."

Three unidentified people attending a diplomatic gathering with Stanton Griffis, who is not pictured here. They are probably in Warsaw, Poland.

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.

Ambassador Stanton Griffis, front row, left, as he marches to the Presidential Palace to present his credentials to the President of Poland. Ambassador Griffis holds a silk top hat in his right hand. Polish troops are on the right of the photo.