Language ability of Ambassadors: This table indicates, by geographical area, the percentage of Ambassadors who are proficient or better in either the primary or secondary language of the country to which they are assigned. This includes those countries where English is the primary or secondary lgnauage. 1 The number of positions varies from the number of posts due to instances where one Chief of Mission is accredited to two or more posts. Present examples are Senegal-Mauritania, Saudi Arabia-Kuwait. The number of positions from Oct. 1, 1950, to Oct. 1, 1959 inclusive, includes overseas Missions to which a Chief of Mission is accredited. This included HICOG from 1949-55; USRO-Paris from 1954-60; Berlin in 1955; and USEC from 1956-60. The number of Chief of Mission positions given in 1960, 1961, 1962 and 1963 does not include the six Special Missions-USRO, OECD, USEC, IAEA, USUN (Geneva), USUN (New York). Vacancies as of May 1963 were Hungary, CAR and Yemen. ATTACHMENT B Career Chiefs of Mission by grade (as of May 15, 1963) Career Ambassador: C. Bohlen W. Butterworth R. Hare J. Riddleberger F. Willis Career Minister: W. Barbour S. Berger M. Bernbaum A. Brown J. Cabot C. B. Elbrick F. Freeman P. Hart J. Holmes F. Kohler E. A. Lightner D. MacArthur T. Mann R. McClintock W. McConaughy B. Morris F. Nolting J. Palmer J. G. Parsons J. Penfield G. F. Reinhardt W. Rountree F. Russell J. Satterthwaite W. Snow F. Sprouse J. Steeves C. Wharton F. Wilkins FSO-1: C. Baldwin W. Crawford O. H. Deming C. V. Ferguson R. McIlvaine A. Meyer R. Miner R. Thurston H. G. Torbert L. Unger M. Williams FSO-2: D. Dumont C. D. Withers EXHIBIT II STATISTICS ON TENURE OF U.S. AMBASSADORS FROM 1946 TO 1963 Argentina, Buenos Aires: George S. Messersmith. James Bruce. Stanton Griffis. Roy R. Rubottom. William J. Sebald.. William C. Battle.. Austria, Vienna: John G. Erhardt. Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr. Belgium, Brussels: Adm. Alan G. Kirk. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Ellis O. Briggs. John M. Cabot.. Canada, Ottawa: Ray Atherton. Richard B. Wigglesworth.. Robert N. Woodward. Apr. 24, 1961-July 16, 1961 Sept. 28, 1961 0 1 9 Chile, Santiago: Claude G. Bowers. Willard L. Beaulac. Walter Howe. Charles W. Cole.... William McCormick Blair, Jr.. Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo: 1 Joseph F. McGurk. George H. Butler.. Ralph H. Ackerman.. William T. Pheiffer. Joseph S. Farland.. Vinton Chapin.. John Bartlow Martin. El Salvador, San Salvador: John F. Simmons.. Albert F. Nufer.. Finland, Helsinki: Maxwell M. Hamilton. Jack K. McFall. John D. Hickerson. Jefferson Caffery.. C. Douglas Dillon.. Amory Houghton.. James M. Gavin, Lt. Gen.. Charles E. Bohlen. Germany, Bonn, Embassy established May 5, 1955: James B. Conant.. David K. E. Bruce.. Walter C. Dowling. George C. McGhee.. Nov. 1, 1944-Apr. 10, 1947 July 1,1961 Jan. 4, 1945-May 7, 1947 May 7, 1947-Oct. 15, 1947 Dec. 8, 1947-July 18, 1949 July 18, 1949-Sept. 20, 1950 May 14, 1951-Aug. 15, 1953 Oct. 26, 1953-Oct. Oct. 25, 1954-Apr. 4, 1954 3, 1958 Apr. 24, 1958-Apr. 30, 1961 Apr. 18, 1961 Aug. 30, 1960 Mar. 21, 1946-Mar. 19, 1949 Oct. 28, 1949-Jan. 19, 1953 Aug. 4, 1953-June 30, 1957 July 2, 1957-Mar. 20, 1961 Apr. 6, 1961 Mar. 1, 1945-July 12, 1946 Aug. 26, 1946-Feb. 24, 1948 July 13, 1948-June 30, 1952 July 1, 1952-June 5, 1953 June 3, 1953-July 3, 1957 June 5, 1957-June 24, 1960 Aug. 2, 1960-Sept. 25, 1960 Mar. 2, 1962 Sept. 22, 1944-Apr. 10. 1947 July 30, 1947-Aug. 24, 1949 Aug. 25, 1949-Apr. 26, 1952 May 15, 1952-June 5, 1953 June 2, 1953-Oct. 28, 1954 Oct. 5, 1954-Oct. 11, 1955 Oct. 19, 1955-Sept. 29, 1957 Sept. 27, 1957-Feb. 5, 1961 Jan. 30, 1961 Feb. 21, 1946-Jan. 3, 1948 Dec. 19, 1947-Feb. 17, 1950 Feb. 8, 1950-Sept. 17, 1952 Sept. 21, 1954-Nov. 5, 1955 Nov. 23, 1955-Oct. 13, 1959 Oct. 22, 1959-Nov. 24, 1960 Mar. 10, 1961-May 18, 1963 Mar. 19, 1963 Dec. 30, 1944-July 8, 1949 May 11, 1948-Mar. 31, 1952 Mar. 14, 1952-Mar. 4, 1953 Feb. 27, 1953-Mar. 14, 1957 Mar. 21, 1957-Feb. 3, 1961 Mar. 1, 1961-July 31, 1962 Oct. 3, 1962 May 12, 1955-Mar. 15, 1957 Mar. 15, 1957-Nov. 12, 1959 Nov. 12, 1959-May 31, 1963 May 8, 1963 51342070 24212212 201120332 ca 203332 11304301 222110132 12213120 4314310 1230 1 The United States severed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic, effective Aug. 26, 1960, resumed diplomatic relations effective Jan. 6, 1962. |