DULLES BROTHERS COPE WITH REDS FROM SUNNY, DARK SIDES OF STREET

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• Publication Date: October 6, 1955
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POWERFUL TEAMWORK
Dulles Brothers Cope ,With .Reds
By EDWIN A. LAHEY
From
Sunni, ark Sides of Stret
U.
the Geneva spirit and discuss pos-
sible ways of averting a war that
might -liquidate the human race.
As chief of the ' Central ; Intelli-
gence Agency, it it the ;job of
Allen Welsh Dulles to `set -fire to
the, coat tails of the Russians, the
way they used .to do ins the old
Marx Brothers routine.'"
His chief function. istq' h e l p
keep the Russian bear ' hemmed
in.
WASHINGTON-The strong men
in the Eisenhower I administration
will automatically loom larger in
the vacuum created by the Presi-
dent's physical disability.
High up in this heap are two
bright lads from Watertown,
N. Y., who have a brother act
that has already- become a re-
markably powerful force in the =
conduct of our international rela-
tions. 11
They are John Foster Dulles
and Allen Welsh'Dulles, w h o s e
jobs complement each other's in a
way that makes them a pretty po-
tent team.
As secretary of state, it is the
task of John Foster Dulles to, sip
tea with the Russians, laugh at
their labored jokes In keenin with
ernme
would
tions
John Foster Dulles works In a
gold fish bowl. He roams the world
in a fanfare of publicity, and 'has
kept the taxpayers up to date,
through press conferences. and
television talks, more thoroughly
than ahy secretary of state in our
time.
Ailed Dulles, on the other hand,
operates in a cloak and dagger
routind about which not even Con-
gress an be,, told, even though
Congress supplies the money, for
the CIA.
An efnploye of the CIA doesn't
dare even tell his landlady where
he works.
John'Foster Dulles told a poll-
tic 4udience in August, 1952,
thathe Republican ticket were
elected Mr. Eisenhower would pro-
mote juiet revolutions in the
satellite countries of Eastern Eu-
rope., k
its in Eastern Europe, that
have been Allen Dulles'
JOHN FOSTER DULLES`
But the7''MT6"Irad1ood connec-
tions that helped them in both
their public -and private careers.
T h e i r maternal grandfather,
John Watson Foster, was a' re-
nowned international lawyer, and
served as secretary of state under
President Harrison in 1892-93. _
Foster, a farm boy, was gradu-
ated from the University of Indi-
ana, fought in the Civil War, and
later practiced law and published
a newspaper in Evansville, Ind.
He was a Republican partylead-
er in that state, and served as a
U.,S. diplomat in Mexico, Russia
and Spain before he set up his
law practice in Washington.
Foster had two daughters, Edith
and. Eleanor.
Edith married Allen Macy Dul-
les, a Presbyterian minister, who
served in Detroit, Watertown, and
finally at the Auburn (N. Y.) Theo-
logical 'Seminary.
Dulles boys started out Eleanor Foster, re h i e ought by the
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a young
own lawyer I1ailleoi
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Robert Lansing, and married him
in 1890." .
Lansing served with Foster as
an associate counsel in some inter-
national ., arbitration cases in-
volving the seal fishing rights in
the Bering Sea and the boundary
dispute between the United States
and Canada.
. Lansing later became secretary
of state in the Wilson administra-
lion.
Jolty Foster Dulles and Allen
Welsh Dulles graduated brilliant-
=1y from Princeton, one in 1908, the
other in 1914, when grandfather
.Foster and uncle Lansing were
;both powerful men.
' , It was, at Foster's recommenda-
tion that John Foster Dulles en-
tered the law firm of Sullivan &
Cromwell in "" 91Y, to become a
senior partner before he became
,;secretary of state.
(This law firm has a fabulous
history of its own as an interna-
onaI institution. It helped teddy '
Roosevelt get the Panama Canal,
and in its day has handled the
legal work in connection with the
financing of Germany, Norway,
Poland, Denmark, France, Argen- =
tina,; Uruguay, Chile, and Colom-
bia.)
Secretary of State Lansing, John
Foster Dulles" uncle; sent him to
represent the United States at a
Pan-American scientific congress,
and also to win friends for the
United States in the area of the
Panama Canal during World War
I.
411en Welsch Dulles went into
diplomacy as a career after col- .
lege, but gave it up In 1926, be-
cause he, felt his $8;Q00-a-year sal-
ary was inadequate.
Allen also jolned.the Sullivan &
Cromwell firm,.where his career
in international, affairs .continued
on a private, rather than a public
basis; at considerable more pay.
When the two brothers f r o m
Watertown resigned from the Wall
Street law firm to enter the Eis.
enhower administration, t h e y
came well equipped for their re-.
spective 'jobs by a life-time of
trdining and family environment,
John Foster Dulles had in fact
been '"secretary of state" for
Thomas E. Dewey of New York,
in both his. campaigns for the pres-
idency, and trained Dewey in his
foreign policy thinking. His advice
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`Allen WeTsh Dulles had special
ftaitring for, his present job while
.chief of the Office of Strategic,
Services "cloak and dagger" mis-
sidn in Switzerland during the last;
war; and ' as: OSS chief in Ger
many at the end of the' war.
}
Both members of this remark-
able brother act are at the ag
when most men begin thinking o
unwinding. John Foster is &7 an
Allen is 62.
But the Dulles brothers seem tyt
have the most .active part of, theil
lives still, ahead of them as thes(
cope with, our day-to-day relation
with the Soviet Union, one on #h1
dark side, the other on the sunn)K
side of the street.
(Copyright, 1955, Chicago Daily News)
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