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The Secretary of State under President Eisenhower, Dulles was chairman of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when Alger Hiss was president in 1947-1948. Dulles asked Hiss to consider becoming president of the organization in January 1946, but his relations with Hiss chilled after Chambers' accusations became public.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/korea/large/korea
I had a talk with [State Department Consultant and leading Republican John Foster Dulles] . . . right after he returned to this country and he said he was speechless in admiration of what had been done. He felt the administration had made the United Nations a living vital force in the world and he strongly applauded the whole aspect of collective security. Special Assistant to the Secretary of State Lucius Battle Truman Library Institute conference comment, May 1975 The Korean War: A 25-year Perspective (The Regents Press of Kansas, 1976)
http://www.catholictradition.org/cfn-dulles.htm
This generation's airborne travelers probably associate the name Dulles with nothing more than the Virginia international airport which serves the nation's capital.
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.
The metamorphosis of Avery Dulles from a boy raised in an "agnostic Protestant" internationalist family to an elderly Cardinal in the Catholic Church is so unusual that The New York Times published an interview with him in their February 11 magazine. The Q. and A. interview opened rather bluntly:
Q. "Your name is deeply rooted in the American W ASP establishment. Your grandfather was a liberal Presbyterian theologian. Your father John Foster Dulles was one of the architects of the post-war world. Your uncle, Allen Dulles, was the head of the CIA and yet here you are, a Catholic Cardinal. Was your family religious at home?"
A. "My family had been very church-committed, but then, we got a country house out on Long Island, and the church practice fell off. My father found his religion rather irrelevant to his life. He didn't have any particular connection to a church."
Q. "But that changed?"
A. "Around 1937, my father was asked to take part in a League of Nations conference in Paris. It got absolutely nowhere. He was disgusted with the nationalism of all the representatives there. But then he went to a meeting in Oxford and found the atmosphere completely different, he concluded that it was Christianity that made the difference, and he became very interested in using the churches as a means [emphasis added] if you like to overcome this nationalism and promote world peace."
What a revealing answer! What Father Dulles has admitted is that religion played no real part in his father's life and yet his father realized that Christian churches could be used to fight the "nationalism" that had weakened the League of Nations. Under the guise of "world peace," John Foster Dulles realized he could use Christian Churches to achieve his goals of a one world government.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdulles.htm
John Foster Dulles, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born in Washington on 25th February, 1888. His grandfather was John Watson Foster, Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison. His uncle, Robert Lansing, was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson.
After attending Princeton University and George Washington University he joined the New York law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell, where he specialized in international law.
In 1918 Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference. Afterwards he served as a member of the War Reparations Committee. Dulles, a deeply religious man, attended numerous international conferences of churchmen during the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1945 Dulles participated in the San Francisco Conference and helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter. He subsequently attended the General Assembly of the United Nations as a United States delegate in 1946, 1947 and 1950.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/05/bottum.htm
And behind that modern establishment stood earlier American establishments: the long line of New England intellectuals who discovered transcendentalism in the pages of Emerson, the longer line of Protestant ministers who preached Calvinism from the Second Book of Kings. Avery's grandfather, Allen Macy Dulles, had been a Presbyterian pastor and a co-founder of the American Theological Society. 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.
Still, Avery Dulles described himself as an agnostic when he arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate, in 1936. The subsequent decade was a time of prominent Catholic conversions, particularly intellectual and literary ones. Thomas Merton gave the classic account of those days in The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), the tale of his progress from Columbia University to a Trappist monastery. But even for his generation, Dulles's conversion was curiously intellectual. It began when he decided that Catholic philosophy provided a more complete account of the world than others did. Acceptance of the philosophy compelled acceptance of the theology, which in turn compelled acceptance of the faith-except, of course, that intellectually accepting faith isn't the same as actually having faith.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/05/bottum.htm
And behind that modern establishment stood earlier American establishments: the long line of New England intellectuals who discovered transcendentalism in the pages of Emerson, the longer line of Protestant ministers who preached Calvinism from the Second Book of Kings. Avery's grandfather, Allen Macy Dulles, had been a Presbyterian pastor and a co-founder of the American Theological Society. 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.
Still, Avery Dulles described himself as an agnostic when he arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate, in 1936. The subsequent decade was a time of prominent Catholic conversions, particularly intellectual and literary ones. Thomas Merton gave the classic account of those days in The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), the tale of his progress from Columbia University to a Trappist monastery. But even for his generation, Dulles's conversion was curiously intellectual. It began when he decided that Catholic philosophy provided a more complete account of the world than others did. Acceptance of the philosophy compelled acceptance of the theology, which in turn compelled acceptance of the faith-except, of course, that intellectually accepting faith isn't the same as actually having faith.