“I do not expect that there is going to be a communist victory in Indochina”
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John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as United States secretary of state under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until his resignation in 1959. A member of the Republican Party, he was briefly a U.S. senator from New York in 1949. Dulles was a significant figure in the early Cold War era who pushed for an aggressive rollback campaign against communi…
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politics · American politician and diplomat (1888–1959) · politician · diplomat · lawyer · trustee · chairperson · foreign minister · also John Foster Dulles, Dulles
Born 25 February 1888 · Died 24 May 1959 · Q223677
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2026· 2 entries
Washington Times: Dulles board approves $19.9 billion overhaul, defers parking garage and hotel proposed by Trump
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1959· 7 entries
Won Medal of Freedom (1959).
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And he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington County, Virginia
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Died 1959-05-24.
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“Opis: w rozmowie z lordem Moranem.”
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“We have reconfirmed the unity and firmness of our position, the position expressed in the Joint Communique of the four powers at Paris on December 14th. We do not accept any substitution of East Germans for the Soviet Union in its responsibilities toward Berlin and its obligations to us. We are resolved that our position in, and access to, West Berlin shall be preserved.”
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Suffering from cancer, Dulles resigned from office and died shortly after
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With a ceremony attended by Christian Herter, Dulles's successor as Secretary of State
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1958· 2 entries
Where anti-American protesters carried signs bearing de Gaulle's quote
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Dulles authorized the Secretary of the Air Force to state publicly that the United States was prepared to use nuclear weapons in a conflict with China over the islands of Quemoy and Matsu
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1957· 1 entry
Singing a novelty song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles"
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1955· 1 entry
Argued in a speech that "neutrality has increasingly become obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception
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1954· 2 entries
Dulles designed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), providing for collective action against aggression
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At the height of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Dulles helped plan and promote Operation Vulture, a proposed B-29 aerial assault on the communist Viet Minh siege positions to relieve the beleaguered French Army
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1953· 2 entries
Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1953–1959).
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President Eisenhower chose Dulles as Secretary of State
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1951· 2 entries
Dulles also helped initiate the ANZUS Treaty for mutual protection with Australia and New Zealand
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Career landmark: consultant (1951–1952).
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1950· 1 entry
Dulles published War or Peace, a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which was favored by the foreign policy elite in Washington, particularly in the Democratic administration of Harry S
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: United States senator (1949–1949).
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1946· 1 entry
Career landmark: representative (1946–1949).
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1945· 1 entry
Dulles participated in the San Francisco Conference as an adviser to Arthur H
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1944· 1 entry
Dulles took an active role in establishing the Republican plank calling for the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in The British Mandate for Palestine
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1934· 1 entry
Germany unilaterally stopped payments on private debts of the sort that Dulles was handling
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1924· 1 entry
Was the defense counsel in the church trial of Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in his denomination
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1918· 3 entries
Their son Avery Dulles (1918–2008) converted to Roman Catholicism, entered the Jesuit order, and became the first American theologian to be appointed a Cardinal.
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And after 1923 known as the Foreign Policy Association, which supported American membership in the League of Nations
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President Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference, where he served under his uncle, Secretary of State Robert Lansing
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1917· 1 entry
Dulles’ uncle, Robert Lansing, the then-Secretary of State, recruited him to travel to Central America
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1914· 1 entry
Their daughter Lillias Dulles Hinshaw (1914–1987) became a Presbyterian minister.
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1913· 1 entry
Dulles (1913–2008) was a professor of history and specialist in Brazil at the University of Texas at Austin.
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1912· 1 entry
Dulles married Janet Pomeroy Avery (1891–1969), granddaughter of Theodore M
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1911· 1 entry
Studied at George Washington University (1911).
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1909· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1908–1909).
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1908· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1908).
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-02-25.
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