Yeh Kung-Chao Signing Defense Pact

(Original Caption) Signing mutual defense pact with Nationalist China. Washington, D.C.: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (left) looks on as Yeh Kung-Chao (George K.C. Yeh), foreign minister of Nationalist China, puts his signature to the new mutual defense pact between the United States and Nationalist China at a State Department ceremony. Standing in rear are (from left): Walter Robertson, assistant secretary of state for the Far East; Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and V.K. Wellington Koo, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. Formosa and the Pescadores Islands are mentioned in the pact as specific areas guaranteed against attack.