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SHARP at 9 a.m., Jan. 22, 1953, John Foster Dulles showed up for work in his fifth-floor office at the State Department, a tall, austere-looking man, eyes wary, mouth turned down at the corners, shoulders hunched, necktie slightly off-center. He sat down behind a big desk across...
In the six years that followed, it was the contribution of John Foster Dulles to his countrymen and to freedom that he best defined and actively waged the cold war in those terms. "The arena is vast," he wrote in his book, War or Peace. "It embraces the whole world...
As he followed his guidelines, Dulles was a superb tactician. Traveling an astonishing 559,988 miles in six years, he worked tirelessly to keep diverse peoples and leaders united in common purpose and also to educate himself; he negotiated skillfully at scores of world conferences. When he moved out ahead...
But above all, Dulles was the clear, stern conscience of freedom. Said Dulles: "Our nation must stand as a solid rock in a storm-tossed world . . . Rededication to the faith of our fathers is . . . what is needed to make apparent the futility of any world program based on the suppression...
From this sure base Dulles faced up to his times with an unusual diplomatic consistency. His first battleground: the Far East. His first decision: the scores of struggles under way along Red China's borders and from Korea to Malaya should be rated and met as one. His first...