John Foster Dulles
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John Foster Dulles
Times Man of the Year 1954
Priscilla Manrique
April 8, 2006
Communications Applications
Period 6
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John Foster Dulles
“The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.” John Foster Dulles was a religious man of peace who thought it is the most necessary to get to the final boundary before entering the world of war. He believed that if one is too scared to try or even get close is considered lost. He was a well known and a very dependable man of politics. His policies were driven towards peace. He was admired from people all around the world and was selected to be the time magazines man of the year in 1954.
John Foster Dulles was born February 25, 1888 in Washington and died May 24, 1959 due to cancer. He was sent to public school in New York City and he later attended Princeton University and George Washington University. Dulles joined the New York City law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell where he specialized in international law. Both his grandfathers served as secretary of state and both his father and brother were ministers. With two types of influences growing up Dulles remained religious but took part heavily in politics. He tried to join the U.S army in WWI, but he was however refused to join because of his poor vision. Instead he was given an army commission as captain in the War Industrys Board. During the presidential election in 1944, Dulles served as Thomas E. Deweys foreign policy advisor. In 1945, he worked in the San Francisco conference and worked as advisor to Arthur H. Vandenberg and helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter. He was appointed to the United States senate as a republican from New York on July 7, 1949 to fill the new vacancy that was caused by the resignation of democrat Robert F. Wagner. He served on the senate from July 7 to November 8, 1949. In 1950 he published a book called “War or Peace”. He built up capital NATO to control the soviet expansion by threatening massive retaliation in event of a war and was the architect of major elements of U.S. formed policy in the Cold War with the Soviet Union after WWII. John served as secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959 when he was finally urged to resign from office in April of 1959 because of his cancer.
“U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother, CIA Director Allen Dulles, each visited me, and attempted to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of SEATO. I kindly declined the offer, preferring to adopt a neutral stance in the conflict between our neighbors and the U.S. I considered SEATO an aggressive military alliance directed against neighbors whose ideology