On the dais at luncheon in honor of second anniversary of lend-lease, held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D. C. Left to right: minister of the Union of South Africa, Ralph William Close; ambassador of Greece, Cimon Diamantopoulos; ambassador of Panama, Senor Don Ernesto Jean Guardia; ambassador of Mexico, Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera; Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones; Norwegian foreign minister, Trygze Lie; ambassador of Russia, Maxim Litvinov; Vice-President Henry A. Wallace; Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Chinese foreign minister T.V. Soong; British ambassador Lord Halifax; ambassador of Belgium, Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz; Secretary of Agriculture Claude A. Wickard; ambassador of Poland, Jan Ciechanowski; ambassador of Norway, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstiderne; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas; minister of Guatemala, Senor Dr. Adrian Recinos; minister of Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Hurban; Representative Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; minister of Honduras, Senor Dr. Don Julian R. Caceres; minister of Costa Rica, Senor Dr. Don Luis Fernandez; minister of Luxembourg, Hugues Le Gallais; the Philippine Resident Commissioner Joaquin M. Elizalde

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Minneapolis, Minnesota. At a meeting of the Swedish Club, a businessmen's social organization. The club has been in existence for many years and in addition to having lectures and programs, it participates in various public campaigns. The meeting was held at the Saint Anthony Club and the speaker was Elmer Peterson, a radio commentator who spoke on "Sweden's position in the present world crisis"

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Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican ambassador to the United States and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones at luncheon of dehydrated food held March 11, 1943, at Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., to commemorate second anniversary of lend-lease

On the dais at luncheon in honor of second anniversary of lend-lease, held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D. C. Left to right: minister of the Union of South Africa, Ralph William Close; ambassador of Greece, Cimon Diamantopoulos; ambassador of Panama, Senor Don Ernesto Jean Guardia; ambassador of Mexico, Senor Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera; Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones; Norwegian foreign minister, Trygze Lie; ambassador of Russia, Maxim Litvinov; Vice-President Henry A. Wallace; Lend-lease administrator Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Chinese foreign minister T.V. Soong; British ambassador Lord Halifax; ambassador of Belgium, Count Robert van der Straten-Ponthoz; Secretary of Agriculture Claude A. Wickard; ambassador of Poland, Jan Ciechanowski; ambassador of Norway, Wilhelm Munthe de Morgenstiderne; Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas; minister of Guatemala, Senor Dr. Adrian Recinos; minister of Czechoslovakia, Vladimir Hurban; Representative Sol Bloom, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; minister of Honduras, Senor Dr. Don Julian R. Caceres; minister of Costa Rica, Senor Dr. Don Luis Fernandez; minister of Luxembourg, Hugues Le Gallais; the Philippine Resident Commissioner Joaquin M. Elizalde

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Six Wise Men

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.