Box: 1 Fold: 52 Tokyo 1953-6: Correspondence Unidentified Box: 1 Fold: 53 Tokyo 1953-56 - Memoranda Box: 1 Fold: 54 Tokyo 1953-56 - Personnel File (Parsons) Box: 1 Fold: 55 Tokyo 1953-56 - Eulogy for Dick Lamb (by Parsons) Box: 1 Fold: 56 Tokyo 1953-56 - American School in Japan: Commencement 1954 Box: 1 Fold: 57 Tokyo 1953-56 - Mementos Box: 1 Fold: 58 Tokyo 1953-56 - Newsclippings/Press Releases Box: 1 Fold: 59 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Protocol Agreement Box: 1 Fold: 60 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Brownson Committee Box: 1 Fold: 61 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: UN Forces Status Agreement Box: 1 Fold: 62 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement Box: 1 Fold: 63 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: U.S. Servicemen Awards Box: 1 Fold: 64 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Bikini Settlement 1955 Box: 1 Fold: 65 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Farewell to J. Graham Parsons Box: 1 Fold: 66 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Parsons' Residence/Garden Box: 1 Fold: 67 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Miscellaneous Box: 1 Fold: 68 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Miscellaneous Box: 1 Fold: 69 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Miscellaneous Box: 1 Fold: 70 Tokyo 1953-56 - Photographs: Miscellaneous Box: 2 Fold: 1 Laos 1956 - Correspondence B-C Box: 2 Fold: 2 Laos 1956 - Correspondence D-F Box: 2 Fold: 3 Laos 1956 - Correspondence G-J Box: 2 Fold: 4 Laos 1956 - Correspondence K-P Box: 2 Fold: 5 Laos 1956 - Correspondence R-W
Box: 2 Fold: 6 Laos - Correspondence Carbons (by Parsons) Box: 2 Fold: 7 Laos 1957 - Correspondence A-C Box: 2 Fold: 8 Laos 1957 - Correspondence D-F Box: 2 Fold: 9 Laos 1957 - Correspondence G-J Box: 2 Fold: 10 Laos 1957 - Correspondence K-M Box: 2 Fold: 11 Laos 1957 - Correspondence N-P Box: 2 Fold: 12 Laos 1957 - Correspondence Q-T Box: 2 Fold: 13 Laos 1957 - Correspondence U-Y Box: 2 Fold: 14 Laos 1957 - Memoranda Box: 2 Fold: 15 Laos 1957 - Correspondence Carbons (by Parsons)
Includes some telegrams sent to family. Note: contents of this folder are not indexed.
Box: 2 Fold: 16 Laos 1958 - Correspondence
Box: 2 Fold: 17 Laos 1956-58 - Correspondence Unidentified Box: 2 Fold: 18 Laos 1956-58 - Dwight D. Eisenhower Box: 2 Fold: 19 Laos 1956-58 - Christian Herter Honorary Dinner Menu Box: 2 Fold: 20 Laos 1956-58 - Helen Keller Box: 2 Fold: 21 Laos 1956-58 - Carl Robbins Box: 2 Fold: 22 Laos 1956-58 - Prince Souvanna Phouma Box: 2 Fold: 23 Laos 1956-58 - Prince Souvanna Phouma: Photographs Box: 2 Fold: 24 Laos 1956-58 - Prince Souvanna Phouma: Clippings Box: 2 Fold: 25 Laos 1956-58 - Briefing File Box: 2 Fold: 26 Laos 1956-58 - Briefing File Box: 2 Fold: 27 Laos 1956-58 - Briefing File Box: 2 Fold: 28 Laos 1956-58 - Memoranda Box: 2 Fold: 29 Laos 1956-58 - Personnel File (Parsons) Box: 2 Fold: 30 Laos 1956-58 - Greeting Cards Box: 2 Fold: 31 Laos 1956-58 - Guest Book Box: 2 Fold: 32 Laos 1956-58 - News Bulletins
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment to Tokyo, Japan. Correspondence unidentified.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous memoranda and schedules of events attended.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains personnel file for J. Graham Parsons during appointment to Japan.
undated
DESCRIPTION: Contains typescript of eulogy written by J. Graham Parsons for Dick Lamb, fellow Foreign Service officer serving in Japan.
May to June 1954
DESCRIPTION: Correspondence, commencement program, and typescript of address given by J. Graham Parsons at the American School in Japan.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous mementos from appointment in Tokyo.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains newspaper clippings and press U.S. embassy press releases relating to Japan and U.S. diplomatic activities.
9/28/1953
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to the U.S.-Japanese signing of protocol for revision of Article 17 of the administrative agreement for criminal jurisdiction, October 28, 1953.
October 1953
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to visit to Japan of the Government Operations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives led by Charles B. Brownson.
February 19, 1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to agreement confirming status of United Nations forces in Japan, signed in Tokyo with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki in the presence of U.S. and other Asian country leaders including Australia and New Zealand.
March 8m, 1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to signing of the Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement between U.S. and Japan.
1954
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to presentation of certificates to U.S. servicemen who assisted after the stampede at Nijubashi Bridge, Imperial Palace, Tokyo, January 2, 1954.
1955
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to the Bikini (island) settlement between the U.S. and Japan.
May 1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs relating to presentation of farewell gift to J. Graham Parsons before departure from post in Tokyo.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs of residence and garden of J. Graham Parsons in Tokyo.
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs of miscellaneous occasions (unidentified).
1953-56
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs of unidentified occasions during appointment of J. Graham Parsons in Tokyo.
1953-6
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs of unidentified occasions during appointment of J. Graham Parsons to Tokyo.
1953-6
DESCRIPTION: Contains b/w photographs of unidentified occasions during appointment of J. Graham Parsons to Tokyo.
1956
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence with the following: Robert G. Barnes; George O. Barraclough; Keyes Beech; Max W. Bishop; W. Wendell Blancke; Ellis O. Briggs; Earle A. Cleveland; Hugh S. Cumming.
1956
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence with the following: N. Carter de Paul (including report on U.S. Operations Mission in Laos); Jr. to W. Wendell Blancke; Virgil T. De Vault; Dr. Albertino dos Santos Matias (Portugues Legation, Thailand); Elden B. Erickson; Max Finger.
1956
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Marshall Green; Robert E. Haynes; Loy W. Henderson; Martin F. Herz; Herbert Hoover, Jr. (re appointment of Parsons as ambassador to Laos); Outerbridge Horsey; John D. Jernegan; James R. Johnstone; Howard P. Jones; Russell B. Jordan.
1956
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence with the following: Eric Kocher; Sidney K. Lafoon; Earle A. Cleveland; Howard P. Mace; Robert J.G. McClurkin; Robert N. McGill; H. Freeman Matthews; William A. McFadden; Henry L. Miller; Thurston B. Morton; L. Phinit-Akson (Royal Thai ambassador to Japan).
1956
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence with the following: Walter S. Robertson; Eleanor W. Sandford; William Sherman; Henry Sokolove; Carl W. Strom; Adm. Felix B. Stump; Margaret Tibbetts; Charles E. Walker; Frank A. Waring.
10/20/1955 - 12/31/1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains chronological carbons of correspondence sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos. (Note: contents of this folder not indexed!)
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Joan B. Ackerman (maj. gen. U.S. Air Force); H. Gardner Ainsworth; John M. Allison; Daniel V. Anderson; Leonard L. Bacon; Jules Bassin; Donald C. Bliss; William L. Blue; James Bonbright; Peter M. Boulton; Ellis O. Briggs; C.P. Cabell (lieut. gen. U.S. Air Force); N. Carter de Paul, Jr.; Christian Chapman; Milton J. Clark; Robert G. Cleveland; Sterling J. Cottrell; Leon L. Cowles.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: N. Carter de Paul, Jr.; Allen Dulles; Elbridge Durbrow; Andrew B. Foster.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Sam P. Gilstrap; G. McMurtrie Godley; Joseph C. Grew; Foster Hailey (New York Times); W.K. Harrison (lieut. gen. Caribbean Command); Loy W. Henderson; John D. Hickerson; Thomas R. Hodet; John B. Hollister; James R. Johnstone; Howard Jones; John Wesley Jones.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: William Kelly; Ridgeway B. Knight; Eric Kocher; Sidney K. Lafoon; Mike Mansfield; Arthur Menzies (Dept. External Affairs, Canada); E.T. McNamara; Brewster H. Morris.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Robert Newbegin; Edward J. Nickel; Edward Page, Jr.; R.C. Partridge (maj. gen.. U.S. Army, Thailand); Howard W. Pixley.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: John A. Roberts; Carl A. Robbins (re Haynes M. Miller); Karl L. Rankin; G. Frederick Reinhardt; Walter S. Robertson; John Rockefeller; Joseph C. Satterthwaite; William J. Sebald; John S. Service; Horace H. Smith; Hamilton Southworth; Carl W. Strom; William C. Trimble.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Thomas H. Unger; Frank Waring; Evan Wilson; Kenneth T. Young.
1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous memoranda and telegrams sent/received during Parsons' appointment to Laos. Includes "Instructions for Use of Form FS-315 Efficiency Report," and "Department of State Official List of Authorized Certifying Officers with Facsimile Signatures for Use of United States Disbursing Officers."
1/7/1957-12/30/1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains chronological carbons of correspondence sent by J. Graham Parsons.
1958
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Includes correspondence from the following: Winthrop G. Brown; William E. Fee, Jr.; Sam Gilstrap; Ichiro Ishikawa (commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission of Japan); James R. Johnstone; G.S. Messersmith.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Personal/professional correspondence received/sent by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as ambassador to Laos. Correspondence unidentified.
12/25/1956 & 3/10/1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Dwight D. Eisenhower accepting Parsons' resignation as ambassador to Laos. Includes printed Christmas card.
September 9, 1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains menu for dinner held in honor of Christian Herter, U.S. Undersecretary of State.
September 30, 1957
DESCRIPTION: Contains TLS from Helen Keller to J. Graham Parsons.
1957-59
DESCRIPTION: Contains file regarding Carl Robbins, and work as director of U.S. Operations Mission in Laos. Includes correspondence from Howard P. Jones; Gordon H. Messegee; William M. Kelly.
January 13-15, 1958
DESCRIPTION: Memoranda, scheduling lists re visit to U.S. of prime minister of Laos, Prince Souvanna Phouma.
January 13-15, 1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains photographs taken of visit to the U.S. by Prince Souvanna Phouma, premier of Laos.
January 13-15 1958
DESCRIPTION: Contains newspaper clippings re visit to the U.S. by Prince Souvanna Phouma.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains notes and drafts by J. Graham Parsons used to prepare briefs/reports re Laos during appointment as U.S. ambassador. Topics include: Lao civil budget 1956; foreign trade; police; reindoctrination centers; International Cooperation Administration (ICA) program in Laos.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains notes and drafts by J. Graham Parsons used to prepare briefs/reports re Laos during appointment as U.S. ambassador. Topics include: Fairless committee briefing notes; industrialization of Laos; mutual security program; foreign trade; International Cooperation Administration program; operations coordination board report (10/9/1957); "Proposal for a National Village Development Program for Laos" (2/27/1957); military aid to Laos; Programs Evaluation Office report.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains notes and drafts by J. Graham Parsons used to prepare briefs/reports re Laos during appointment as U.S. ambassador. Topics include: political situation.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains miscellaneous memoranda relating to Laos appointment.
1956-8
DESCRIPTION: Contains personnel file relating to Parsons' appointment to Laos.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains greeting cards for Parsons family during residence in Laos.
July 27, 1956
DESCRIPTION: Contains guest book kept by J. Graham Parsons during appointment as U.S. ambassador to Laos.
1956-58
DESCRIPTION: Contains USIS news bulletins and issues of the Lao Presse relating to the appointment and activities of J. Graham Parsons in Laos.
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