State Department - Europe, France (Ambassador), 1961

Containers:
Box 14, Folder 8
Scope and content:

Scope and Contents Correspondence and appointment letters and memos. Includes a letter from Dean Rusk giving Tuthill the personal rank of Ambassador and confirming his assignment to Paris and a letter form John F. Kennedy appointing him alternate U.S. Representative at the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (oeec). An "Officer Preference Report" is included. Some memos are copies of letters sent to all ambassadors and chiefs of missions. A carbon copy of a bill draft from the Secretary of State to the President to permit the President to appoint "a representative of the United States to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development who shall be an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary" (bill: S. 1891). Includes newspaper articles about Tuthill and his new posting.

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