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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
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. At that time Grandfather Foster was representing not the U.S. but his law client, the Imperial Government of China-and Dulles' first job was as secretary to the Chinese delegation. Among his duties: riding around in a carriage paying courtesy calls, handing out Chinese visiting cards, going the social...
...married an upstate New York girl named Janet Avery, soon afterward interrupted his law practice to work for the World War I Trade Board (poor eyesight kept him out of the military service). After the Armistice, Foster Dulles got a gleaming diplomatic opportunity. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of State Robert Lansing, who was Dulles' maternal uncle, took the young lawyer-diplomat to the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 as a senior presidential adviser on reparations. Afterward, Dulles, 31, got a letter from Woodrow Wilson expressing "the confidence we all have learned to feel in your judgment and ability...
...topflight Presbyterian layman (his daughter Lillias, wife of Manhattan publicist Robert Hinshaw, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary), Dulles began to devote more and more time to considering the relationship of church and state in foreign policy, attended conferences and talks on the topic across the U.S., in Britain, in Chiang Kai-shek's embattled China. In February 1941 Dulles was named chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' influential Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace...
Crossroads Campaign. At World War II's end, Dulles moved to the peacemaking level. Cordell Hull, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State, consulted him on "nonpartisanship." Roosevelt sent him as an adviser to the founding conference of the U.N. at San Francisco, where he and Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked successfully to get the word "justice" ranked with "peace" in the U.N. Charter. In the next five years President Truman sent him to nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated...