Oral History Interviews with
Sir Roger Makins (now Lord Sherfield)
British diplomatist, public servant, and business executive.
Minister at British Embassy, Washington, 1945-47; United Kingdom representative
on United Nations Interim Commission for Food and Agriculture, 1945; Alternate
Delegate to Fifth Session of U.N.R.R.A. Council, Atlantic City, 1946;
Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1947-48, Deputy
Under Secretary, 1948-52; Ambassador to the United States, 1952-56 .
June 15, 1964 and August
10, 1970
Summaries of Interviews
June 15, 1964
Lord Sherfield discusses the early reaction to the Marshall plan. Also
discussed are: Germany's recover, the termination of lend-lease, the 1947
European winter, the UN, ECE, atomic energy, the McMahon Act, Greek-Turkish
aid, Dean Acheson, Will Clayton, Harvey Bundy, Sir Oliver Franks, and
Harry S. Truman. Interview conducted as part of the European Recovery
Interviews Project of the Truman Library.
August 10, 1970
Lord Sherfield discusses the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories,
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, American
anti-colonialism, US administration of economic aid, Economic Cooperation,
European Economic Community, Schumann plan, the British-American "special
relationship," North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the role of
the US Congress in foreign aid. People referred to include Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, Will Clayton, Ernest Bevin, Oliver Franks, Jean
Monnet, Paul Hoffman, and General John H. Hilldring.
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