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  John Foster Dulles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dulles was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican from New York on July 7, 1949, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Democrat Robert F. Wagner.
Dulles served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a successor, Herbert Lehman, was elected, having beaten Dulles in a special election to fill the senate vacancy.
Dulles was one of the pioneers of Mutually Assured Destruction and brinkmanship.
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 AllRefer.com - John Foster Dulles (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Foster Dulles 1888–1959, U.S. Secretary of State (1953–59), b.
Washington, D.C.; grandson of John Watson Foster, Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison, and nephew of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.
Dulles helped develop the Eisenhower doctrine of economic and military aid to maintain the independence of Middle Eastern countries; under its terms U.S. forces were sent to Lebanon in 1958.
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 American President   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Foster Dulles served as secretary of state to President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953 until his resignation on April 15 1959.
Dulles was educated at Princeton (1904-08), the Sorbonne (1908-09) and George Washington University law school (1909-11) and admitted to the New York bar in 1911.
Dulles was responsible for the conclusion of the Austrian Peace Treaty, the formation of SEATO, the Formosa Declaration of 1955, and the "Eisenhower Doctrine" to prevent the spread of communism in the Middle East.
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 Dulles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Allen Welsh Dulles, former head of the CIA, and brother to John Foster Dulles.
John Foster Dulles, former US Secretary of State, and brother to Allen Dulles.
Avery Cardinal Dulles, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, son of John Foster Dulles
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 John W. Foster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Watson Foster (March 2, 1836 – November 15, 1917) was an American military man, journalist and diplomat.
Born in Evansville, Indiana he was first a lawyer and then served as general for the Union in the American Civil War.
His grandsons include John Foster Dulles, who also became a U.S. Secretary of State, and Allen Welsh Dulles, a Director of Central Intelligence.
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 John Foster Dulles
In recent weeks, however, the name Dulles achieved new prominence when Pope John Paul ll named new Cardinals, one of whom is the 82-year-old Jesuit, Avery Dulles, son of John Foster Dulles and nephew of Allen Dulles, two of the 20th Century's most influential network of power policy makers.
John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Washington on 25th February, 1888.
John Foster Dulles-coming to believe that only the Gospels and international organization could preserve world order-gained wide notice as an expert on international affairs by chairing a 1941 peace commission for the Federal Council of Churches.
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 CNN Cold War - Profile: John Foster Dulles
Born in Washington, D.C., on February 25, 1888, John Foster Dulles -- son of a Presbyterian minister and grandson of a former secretary of state -- enjoyed a privileged youth.
In 1945, Dulles became a prominent Republican participant in bipartisan foreign policy endeavors, serving as senior U.S. adviser to the 1945 San Francisco conference of the United Nations.
Dulles and Eisenhower pursued a policy of strength toward the Soviet Union and communist China.
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 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
Dulles' father was the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N. A liberal clergyman, he questioned whether belief in the Virgin Birth was essential to being a Christian, and he married divorced persons.
Foster was graduated from Princeton in 1908 as valedictorian of his class, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a $600 scholarship for a year's study at the Sorbonne in Paris.
Dulles' conviction that he, with experience in foreign affairs dating to the Hague Conference of 1907, with a rich family background of diplomacy, was the man best qualified to call the turns of United States foreign policy.
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 John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles was the Secretary of State under Eisenhower from 1953-1960, succeeding Dean Acheson.
Dulles' criticisms were those of an opposition leader - more precise in specifying errors that in drawing up alternatives.
Dulles' approach to foreign policy was essentially moralistic and ideological.
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 Dulles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Foster Dulles was Eisenhower's secretary of state and was well known for his brinkmanship.
Dulles was bold enough to send high-flying spy planes over the territory of the Soviet Union until he died in 1959.
Dulles was invited to the 38th parallel (boundary between North Korea supported by the Soviet Union and the South supported by the United States).
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John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State, appointed by President Eisenhower, formulated and conducted U.S. foreign policy at the height of the Cold War.
Dulles was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy but was unsuccessful for reelection.
John Foster Dulles was time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1954 and his image was emblazoned on the cover.
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 KWCC Biography - Dulles
John Foster Dulles, born on February 25, 1888, is known today primarily for his tenure as secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In 1948, Dulles was widely touted as the next secretary of state in the “new Dewey administration,” a forecast upset by that November’s election of President Harry S. Truman.
Dulles attempted to arrive at solutions for their unrest through Christian principles, seemingly perpetual travel, military aid and a treaty or pact committing the United States.
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 Record Detail: Harry Ransom Center
The John Foster Dulles Collection (Discrete Collection 145) is comprised of 1925 items (973:0023 - 973:0033) associated with the life and carreer of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
Box 8: (973:0027:0001-0113) Family portraits from the nineteenth century, of Janet and John Foster Dullesý families; represented are the Fosters, the Sewards, the Averys, and the Pomeroys.
Dulles in an evening gown, the Corning Glassware center, and New Delhi, Viewmaster slides of a vacation in Tuscon, two panoramic photos of Dulles and companys, and a Viewmaster that doesnýt match the Viewmaster slides present.
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 ipedia.com: John Foster Dulles Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Foster Dulles was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 - 1959.
Dulles upset the leaders of several non-aligned countries when on 9th June, 1955, he argued in one speech that "neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete and except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."
Dulles, suffering from cancer, was forced to resign from office in April, 1959 and died in Washington on 24th May, 1959.
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 John Foster Dulles
John Foster DULLES - DULLES, John Foster (1888—1959) Senate Years of Service: 1949-1949 Party: Republican DULLES,...
John Watson Foster - Foster, John Watson, 1836–1917, American diplomat, b.
Allen Welsh Dulles - Dulles, Allen Welsh, 1893–1969, U.S. public official, b.
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 John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles served as secretary of state in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration.
Dulles was born on February 25, 1888, in Washington, D.C. His father was a Presbyterian minister, and Dulles developed strong religious beliefs that remained with him throughout his life.
Dulles developed a close relationship with Thomas Dewey and was Dewey's foreign policy advisor during the latter's presidential campaign of 1948.
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 DULLES, John Foster (1888-1959) Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Foster Dulles, Peacemaker: A Biographical Sketch of the Former Secretary of State.
Ladenburger, John F. “The Philosophy of International Politics of John Foster Dulles, 1919-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Connecticut, 1969.
“John Foster Dulles and Bipartisanship, 1944-1952.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kansas, 1981.
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 John Foster Dulles --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Dulles, Allen W. diplomat and intelligence expert, who was director (1953–61) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during its early period of growth.
Learn about the Presidency of John Adams, who was the second man to hold the office of U.S. President and the first to occupy the newly constructed White House.
This is a summary of the political philosophy of John Locke.
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 John Foster Dulles
His brother was Allen Dulles and his grandfather was John Watson Foster, Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
Dulles, suffering from cancer, was forced to resign from office in April, 1959.
John Foster Dulles died in Washington on 24th May, 1959.
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 Draft Statements on the Soviet Satellite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Four days after the event, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sent White House Press Secretary James Hagerty his suggestions for the text of a press release which would place the Sputnik launch in its proper context and reassure the public.
Although Dulles' comments did not result in a press release, they did form the basis for much of the administration's "official" comment about the Soviet achievement as well as the core of President Eisenhower's comments at a press conference on October 9th.
This document does not contain the draft statement prepared by Allen Dulles, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and brother of the Secretary of State, which is mentioned in the cover letter.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/sputnik/15.html   (613 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - John Foster Dulles, by Ronald W. Pruessen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
This is the first of a projected two-volume intellectual biography of John Foster Dulles, Eisenhower's Secretary of State from 1953 to 1959.
It brings Dulles to the point when, at the age of sixty-four, he is to win the coveted appointment and his brother, Allen, is to become director of the CIA.
...Pruessen sees in Dulles a man who could persuade himself that his economic pragmatism and his idealism were interchangeable, in a sort of early version of what's-good-for-General Motors-is-good-for-the-world...
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 Finding Aids
During this time John Foster Dulles served as Consultant to Secretary of State dean Acheson and held the rank of Ambassador.
Dulles was responsible for negotiating the multilateral Treaty of Peace between the World War II Allied Powers and Japan.
Ambassador John M. Allison served as Special Assistant to John Foster Dulles during the treaty negotiations.
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 John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles : Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (Biographies in American Foreign Policy (Paper))
John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War
Grandson and nephew of US Secretaries of State, John Foster Dulles also served in that position following a long career in the diplomatic service.
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 Rockefeller - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism
John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), the world’s first billionaire, was America’s most generous philanthropist, fascist financier and Nazi collaborator.
John Spivak says: “Trade unions were openly disbelieving and denounced with anger the so-called discoveries as a deliberate frame-up to provide excuses for more raids against organized labour” (A Man in His Time, 1967).
In 1911, John Foster Dulles summed up eugenics, saying that by eliminating “the weakest members of the population” a purer race could be created.
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