The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

In 1954, Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott sought out DeMille for help in designing the cadet uniforms at the newly established United States Air Force Academy.

* Secretary: Alcide De Gasperi ( 1944 – 1946 ), Attilio Piccioni ( 1946 – 1949 ), Giuseppe Cappi ( 1949 ), Paolo Emilio Taviani ( 1949 – 1950 ), Guido Gonella ( 1950 – 1953 ), Alcide De Gasperi ( 1953 – 1954 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1954 – 1959 ), Aldo Moro ( 1959 – 1964 ), Mariano Rumor ( 1964 – 1969 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1969 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1969 – 1973 ), Amintore Fanfani ( 1973 – 1975 ), Benigno Zaccagnini ( 1975 – 1980 ), Flaminio Piccoli ( 1980 – 1982 ), Ciriaco De Mita ( 1982 – 1989 ), Arnaldo Forlani ( 1989 – 1992 ), Mino Martinazzoli ( 1992 – 1994 )

The Secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott, announced the winning site on 24 June 1954.

Paul Henri Charles Spaak ( 25 January 1899 – 31 July 1972 ) was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman, who served as Prime Minister of Belgium ( 1938 – 1939, 1946 and 1947 – 1949 ), as the first President of the United Nations General Assembly ( 1946 – 1957 ), as the first President of the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community ( 1952 – 1954 ), and as the second Secretary General of NATO ( 1957 – 1961 ).

A post of Minister of Welsh Affairs was created in 1951 under the Home Secretary and was upgraded to Minister of State level in 1954.

Sato gradually rose through the ranks of Japanese politics, becoming Chief Cabinet Secretary to Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida from January 1953 to July 1954.

Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944 – 1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947 – 1949 ; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989-1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process ; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration.

* Michael P. Jackson ( born 1954 ), U. S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005 – 2007

A few hours after the French Union defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made an official speech depicting the " tragic event " and " its defense for fifty seven days and nights will remain in History as one of the most heroic of all time.

Freeman was elected Governor in 1954, re-elected in 1956 and 1958, and after losing re-election in 1960 was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

He became First Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party in 1954 and remained on this position for 35 years, until 1989, thus becoming the longest-serving leader of any Eastern Bloc nation, and one of the longest ruling non-royal leaders in history.

The hardline Stalinist Chervenkov was removed as General Secretary of the BKP in 1954 under Soviet pressure.

They include Executive Committee Member of Mambili Party, Accra ( 1935 – 37 ); General Secretary of National Council of Nigerian and the Cameroons ( 1944 – 45 ); President of the NCNC ( 1946 – 60 ); Vice-President of the Nigerian National Democratic Party ( 1947 – 60 ); Member for Lagos in the Legislative Council of Nigeria ( 1947 – 51 ); Member for Lagos and Leader of the Opposition in the Western House of Assembly ( 1952 – 53 ) Member for Onitsha in the Eastern House of Assembly ( 1954 – 60 ); Minister of Internal Affairs ( Jan .– September 1954 ); Minister of Internal Affairs, Eastern Region ( 1954 ); Member of His Excellency Privy Council, Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); Primer of Eastern Nigeria ( 1954 – 59 ); President of the Senate of the Federation ( Jan .- November 1960 ); Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Nigeria ( 1960 – 63 ); President of the Republic of Nigeria ( 1963 – 1966 ); and Chairman and Presidential candidate of the Nigeria People ’ s Party ( 1978 – 83 ).

Gale Ann Norton ( born March 11, 1954 ) served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush.

He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973.

On April 14, 1954, a reply was received from the Secretary of State who rejected the request for an interview.

After the Communists victory in China, Li was appointed Party Secretary of Hubei Province in China from 1949 – 1954, and Commander of the Hubei Province's military garrison and political commissar.

When asked about the possibility in a November 1954 press conference, Defense Secretary Wilson replied " I wouldn't care if they did.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

* 1954 – The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D. C ..

The 1954 PRC Constitution provides that the State Chairman ( President ) directs the armed forces and made the State Chairman the chair of the Defense Commission ( the Defense Commission is an advisory body, it does not lead the armed forces ).

* In 1954, the Thai Border Patrol Police formed the Volunteer Defense Corps ( also called the Village Scouts ) to provide law and order and emergency or natural disaster response.

In 1954, the National Safety Agency became the Japan Defense Agency, and the National Police Reserve became the Japan Self-Defense Forces ( JSDF ).

In 1954, he resigned and served as Minister of Defense, before returning to office in 1955.

Nygaard worked full time at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment from 1948 to 1960-in computing and programming ( 1948 – 1954 ) and operational research ( 1952 – 1960 ).

The House in the Middle was an American 1954 short documentary film produced by the Federal Civil Defense Administration and the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau, which attempted to show that a clean, freshly painted house ( the middle house ) is more likely to survive a nuclear attack than its poorly maintained counterparts ( the right and left houses ).

In 1954 NSC 5412 provided for the establishment of a panel of designated representatives of the President and the Secretaries of State and Defense to meet regularly to review and recommend covert operations.

* 1954 The Department of Defense chose Grand Forks as the site for a new installation.

He was director of the Electronic Defense Laboratories of Sylvania / GTE in California from 1954 to 1964, and from 1964 to 1977 president of ESL, Incorporated, an electronics firm that he helped found.

Colonel Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán (; 14 September 1913 – 27 January 1971 ) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who served as Defense Minister of Guatemala from 1944 to 1951, and as President of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954.

The final coexistence of two military committees was set in 1954, as the CPC Central Military Commission was re-established, while State military authority rested into a National Defense Commission ( 国防委员会, Guó ​ fáng Wěi ​ yuán ​ huì ) chaired by the President of the People's Republic of China.

Peng Dehuai () ( October 24, 1898 – November 29, 1974 ) was a prominent Chinese Communist military leader, and China's Defense Minister, from 1954 to 1959.

On September 24, 1954, the First National People's Congress confirmed Peng's position, and appointed him Defense Minister and one of the ten vice-ministers of the State Council.

On 1 January 1954, Yuma County Airport was reactivated by the United States Air Force Air Defense Command ( ADC ) as a training facility.

After the Soviet Union shot down an RB-29 aircraft on November 7, 1954, the 39th provided fighter escort for all friendly reconnaissance aircraft flying near Soviet territory and the Northern Air Defense Sector.

The first Japanese Air Self-Defense Force ( JASDF ) units were activated at Misawa in October 1954, and the first Japanese Northern Air Defense Force units began operations in 1957.

* 16th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron ( Air Defense ), July 1 – August 1, 1954

* 4th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron ( Air Defense ), August 1, 1954 – June 20, 1965

* July 1, 1954 — Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces founded.

* 14 August 1954 – < span lang =" fr "> Emmanuel Temple </ span > succeeds < span lang =" fr "> Koenig </ span > as Minister of National Defense and Armed Forces.