YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

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Years of Achievement
lie fought with his life for his country evert as a soldier
might on the field of battle. He inherited appeasement; he
' )raves a heritage?of honor and dignity.
This can be said of John-Foster Dulles, who at the age
of 6 hr'came Secretary of State of. his country, serving un-
1 i1 he reached the age of 71 when he was felled by ail cancer
v. hich he has taken in his stride as-brave men always do.
The family from which John Foster. Dulles sprang was
not one of great wealth; but it has contributed to the United
-
5t ates three Secretaries - of State,
John Foster, Robert Lansing and
John. Foster Duties. .His brother,
Allen- Dulles, heads the C.I.A. and
a sister, Eleanor, heads the German
-Desk of the State- Department. It
The American foreign policy, as
it was developed during the Roose-
velt Administration was based on
the necessities of Uie? War. Presi-
dent Roosevelt decided on a Europe
First Policy, which'was really a con-
tinuation of Woodrow Wilson's-
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World War I policy of preserving the British Empire.
Roosevelt supported Great Britain but not the Empire.
In fact:, he carried to its limit the Wilsonian Fourteen
Points, setting up the- forces which opened the way for the
intensive nationalism in Asia and Africa and the'Sovietiza-
t ion of-Eastern. Europe.
It is difficult to appraise .RoosWelt's Grand D sign at
C~pr~tllstoric distance.
a be that history Wi1i ulihnately' disclose snore
t I ran we now know about World W"A"-but. the practical
t)olitical.result of the Roosevelt polities as:continued -after
the War by Dean Acheson was that yrhen the Elsenhower*
Administration came into existence, American flrestige -was
rot a very low point; Soviet power had expanded until it
dominated nearly the whole of East Asia' anti was develop-
ing tar the .Mediterranean;' France.was on the verge of
.rnar?chy: the Arabs were flaunting us and some.of our best
-friend: had declared themselves to be neutrals. '
.John Foster Dulles had been in the State Departhnent
rl-ifir; Chi- Truman Administration as a factor in the Di-
I",rti,~rn Policy which he and Senator Vandenberg wrote.
i,, wt as a mt.mber of the American delegation to the
(!I Fm ricrsco Conference, which set up the Unit.ed.Nat ions.
Dt ring an interval, he- was a Trustee of the Carnegie
-nu nt for International Peace, but he returned to the
Department as Secretary of State as soon as Eisen.
~r~cr became President and immediately began his travelg
cnrr t h,- world by plane, meeting each problem' personally,
f.rc ink cther?Foreign Ministers and heads of state, batter-
in:; for. his country's place in the sun.
John Foster Dulles is not a demagogue. He is not oven
shrerd politician. His position Was that of a lawyer fight-
n~ `or a client, building his case by reason and logic awl
tiro i.tie:; cot e%idenre,' - ,
STATI.NTL .
? Against him, as a person, Soviet Russia pitted the full
force of Its Propagandistic Invective, seeking not to answer
his prof osal5, but to destroy his usefulness as a man..
Where he least expected opposition vas in Great Brita
-
in
and .there he go It. -
Only recent y have the British discovered how sound
his thinking has been on most questions. Nevertheless, in a
nation where temporary trade seems to'dominate, Dul',c:'
policy of a permanent peace based on a strong WesP, ap-
peared at times.too mystical'for practical men
But toda
.
y,
when he is unable to serve, his absence Is felt keenly throuo h-
out Europe, particularly In Great Britain:
John Foster Dulles goes down in ,American - history as
one of our great Secretaries -of State, along with Thom s
Jefferson, William Seward, John Hay,. Elihu - Root and
Charles Evans Hughes. His Is a monumental service to h,-
country.
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000200440012-2