FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR POST-WAR EUROPE

Series One: The Schuman Plan and the European Coal and Steel Community

Part 1: 1950-1953

Part 2: 1954-1955

Part 3: 1956-1957

Key Personalities: 1950-1958

PRESIDENT OF THE HIGH AUTHORITY OF THE ECSC:

Jean Monnet 1952-1955
René Mayer 1955-1958

BELGIUM:

Prime Minister
Jean Pierre Duvieusart 1950
Louis Marie Pholien 1950-1952
Jean Marie van Joutte 1952-1954
Achille van Acker 1954-1958
Gaston Eyskens 1958-1961

Foreign Minister
Paul-Henri Spaak 1938-1966
Belgian Premier 1938-1939, 1956, 1947-1949

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:

President
Theodor Heuss 1949-1959

Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer 1949-1963

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Konrad Adenauer 1951-1955
Heinrich von Brentano 1955-1961

FRANCE:

President
Vincent Auriol 1947-1954
René Coty 1954-1958
Charles de Gaulle 1958-1969

Premier
Henri Queuille 1950
René Pleven 1950-1951
Henri Queuille 1951
René Pleven 1951-1952
Edgar Fauré 1952
Antoine Pinay 1952-1953
René Mayer 1953
Joseph Laniel 1953-1954
Pierre Mendes-France 1954-1955
Edgar Fauré 1955-1956
Guy Mollet 1956-1957
M Bourgès-Maunoury 1957
Félix Gaillard 1957-1958
Pierre Pflimlin 1958
Charles de Gaulle 1958-1959

Minister of Foreign Affairs
Robert Schuman 1948-1953
Georges Bidault 1953-1954
Pierre Mendes-France 1954-1955
Edgar Fauré 1955
Antoine Pinay 1955-1956
Christian Pineau 1956-1958
René Pleven 1958
M Couve de Murville 1958-1968

ITALY:

Prime Minister
Alcide De Gasperi 1945-1953
Guiseppe Pella 1953-1954
Amintore Fanfani 1954
Mario Scelba 1954-1955
Antonio Segni 1955-1957
Adone Zoli 1957-1958
Amintore Fanfani 1958-1959

Foreign Minister
Carlo Sforza 1947-1951

LUXEMBOURG:

Prime Minister
Pierre Dupong 1937-1953
Joseph Bech 1953-1958
Pierre Frieden 1958-1959

NETHERLANDS:

Prime Minister:
William Drees 1948-1958
Louis J M Beel 1958-1959

GREAT BRITAIN:

Prime Minister
Clement Attlee 1945-1951
Winston Churchill 1951-1955
Anthony Eden 1955-1957
Harold Macmillan 1957-1963

Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin 1945-1951
Herbert Morrrison 1951
Anthony Eden 1951-1955
Harold Macmillan 1955
Selwyn Lloyd 1955-1960

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

President
Harry S Truman 1945-1953
Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961

US Secretary of State
George C Marshall 1947-1949
Dean Acheson 1949-1953
John Foster Dulles 1953-1959

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS:

General Secretary
Stalin 1922-1953
Georgii Malenkov 1953
Nikita Khrushchev 1953-1964

Premier
Stalin 1941-1953
Georgii Malenkov 1953-1955
Nikolai Bulganin 1955-1958
Nikita Khrushchev 1958-1964

Foreign Minister
Andrei Vyshinski 1949-1953
Vyacheslav Molotov 1953-1956
Dmitri Shepilov 1956-1957
Andrei Gromyko 1957-1985

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