Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, China, Volume XIX
List of Persons
Note: This list generally covers only the years 1958–1960. All titles and positions are American unless otherwise indicated. Where no dates are given, the person usually held the position throughout the period. Chinese names are spelled according to contemporary usage.
Allen, George V., Director of the United States Information Agency
Anderson, Robert B., Secretary of the Treasury
Beam, Jacob D., Ambassador to Poland; U.S. Representative in the Ambassadorial talks with the People’s Republic of China from September 1958
Becker, Loftus E., Legal Adviser of the Department of State until August 1959
Bennett, Josiah W., Officer in Charge of Political Affairs, Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, January 1958–September 1960
Berding, Andrew H., Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Bowen, General Frank Sayles, Jr., Chief of the Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan, until July 1958
Brucker, Wilber M., Secretary of the Army
Burke, Admiral Arleigh A., Chief of Naval Operations
Cabell, General Charles P. (Lieutenant General until July 1958), Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Caccia, Sir Harold, British Ambassador to the United States
Calhoun, John A., Deputy Director, Executive Secretariat, Department of State, until September 1958; Director, September 1958–September 1960
Ch’en Ch’eng, Vice President of the Republic of China; President of Executive Yuan (Premier) from July 1958
Ch’en Yi, Vice Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China; Foreign Minister from February 1958
Chiang Ching-kuo, Lieutenant General, Deputy Secretary General, National Defense Council, Republic of China; Minister without Portfolio from July 1958
Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo, President of the Republic of China
Chou En-lai (Zhou Enlai), Premier of the State Council, People’s Republic of China; Foreign Minister through February 1958
Clough, Ralph N., Director, Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, through July 1958
Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., Director, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Department of State
Cutler, Robert, President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs until June 1958
Dillon, C. Douglas, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs through June 1958; Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, July 1958–June 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State
Doan, Major General L.L., Chief, Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan, July 1958–July 1960
Dowling, Walter C., Ambassador to the Republic of Korea until October 1959
Doyle, Vice Admiral A.K., Commander, United States Taiwan Defense Command/Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan, through July 1958
Drumright, Everett F., Consul General in Hong Kong through February 1958; Ambassador to the Republic of China from March 1958
Dulles, Allen W., Director of Central Intelligence
Dulles, John Foster, Secretary of State until April 1959
Eisenhower, Dwight D., President of the United States
Elbrick, C. Burke, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs until November 1958
Felt, Admiral Harry D., Commander in Chief, Pacific, from July 1958
Goodpaster, Brigadier General Andrew J., Staff Secretary to President Eisenhower
Gray, Gordon, Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization until July 1958; thereafter President’s Special Assistant for National Security Affairs
Green, Marshall, Regional Planning Adviser, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until July 1959; Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, July–October 1959; Counselor of Embassy in Korea from November 1959
Green, Theodore Francis, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island
Gromyko, Andrei Andreevich, Soviet Foreign Minister
Hagerty, James C., Press Secretary to the President
Hammarskjöld, Dag, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Haraldson, Wesley C., Director, International Cooperation Administration, Taipei, 1958–1960
Henderson, Loy J., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration
Herter, Christian A., Under Secretary of State until April 1959; thereafter Secretary of State
Huang Shao-ku, Vice Premier of the Republic of China through July 1958; Foreign Minister until June 1960
Irwin, John N., II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs until September 1958; thereafter Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
Jones, G. Lewis, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
Khrushchev, Nikita S., First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; Chairman of the Council of Ministers from March 1958
Kohler, Foy D., Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, February 1958–December 1959; thereafter Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
Lay, James S., Jr., Executive Secretary of the National Security Council until 1959
Lemnitzer, General Lyman L., Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, until July 1959; Chief of Staff, July 1959–September 1960; thereafter Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Lloyd, Selwyn, British Foreign Minister until July 1960; thereafter Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lutkins, Larue R., Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State; Acting Director, July-September 1958
Macmillan, Harold, British Prime Minister
Macomber, William B., Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional Relations
Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), Chairman of the People’s Republic of China through April 1959; Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Martin, Edwin W., First Secretary of Embassy in the United Kingdom through September 1958; Director of the Office of Chinese Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, from September 1958
McConaughy, Walter P., Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from December 1959
McElroy, Neil H., Secretary of Defense until December 1959
Menshikov, Mikhail Alexeyevich, Soviet Ambassador to the United States from April 1958
Merchant, Livingston T., Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, November 1958–August 1959; Deputy Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, August–December 1959; thereafter Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Morgan, Thomas E., Democratic Representative from Pennsylvania; Acting Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Murphy, Robert D., Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs until August 1959; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, August-December 1959
Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal, Prime Minister of India and Minister for External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations
Nixon, Richard M., Vice President of the United States
Parsons, Howard J., Director, Office of Northeast Asian Affairs, Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State, until April 1959
Parsons, J. Graham, Ambassador to Laos through February 1958; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, March 1958–June 1959; Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from July 1959
Reinhardt, G. Frederick, Counselor of the Department of State until January 1960
Rhee, Syngman, President of the Republic of Korea
Robertson, Walter S., Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs through June 1959
Sheh Chang-huan, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China through 1959; Ambassador to Spain, 1959–June 1960; thereafter Minister of Foreign Affairs
Smith, Gerard C., Assistant Secretary of State for Policy Planning; also Department of State Representative on the National Security Council Planning Board
Smoot, Vice Admiral Roland N., Commander, United States Taiwan Defense Command/Military Assistance Advisory Group, Taiwan, from August 1958
Sprague, Mansfield B., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs through September 1958
Steeves, John M., Political Adviser to CINCPAC until March 1959; Consul General, Hong Kong and Macau, March-October 1959; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs from October 1959
Taylor, General Maxwell D., Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, through June 1959
Tong, Hollington K., Ambassador of the Republic of China to the United States through July 1958
Twining, General Nathan F., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 1960
Wang Ping-nan (Wang Bingnan), Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Poland, 1958–1960; Representative of the People’s Republic of China in Ambassadorial talks with the United States from September 1958
Wang Shu-ming (“Tiger” Wang), General,CAF, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China through June 1959; Vice Chairman, Military Strategy Advisory Committee, from June 1959
White, General Thomas D., Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
Wilcox, Francis O., Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Yeh, George K.C. (Yeh Kung-ch’ao), Foreign Minister of the Republic of China through July 1958; Ambassador to the United States from September 1958
Yu Ta-wei, Defense Minister of the Republic of China