Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, his family at his bedside, John Foster Dulles, 71, died from cancer and the complications of pneumonia. "Is it all over?" a member of the family asked. One of the doctors nodded. Janet Dulles moved quietly to the head of the bed and looked down at her husband...
Onward, Christian Soldiers. "What we need to do," said John Foster Dulles long ago, "is to recapture to some extent the kind of crusading spirit of the early days when the missionaries, the doctors, the educators and the merchants carried the knowledge of the great American experiment to all four...
John Foster Dulles was a missionary for peace in the cause of freedom, in the deepest meaning of the American experiment. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888 and grew up beside the bluffs of grey Lake Ontario at the family home in Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the...
Dulles' first ambition was to be a minister. Then his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State, inspired him to be a diplomat. While still a junior at Princeton, Dulles was taken by his grandfather to the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907...
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton, a philosophy major and valedictorian of the class ('08). He went on to score George Washington University's highest law marks to that date, got a bright start as a young international lawyer for New York's Sullivan & Cromwell. In...