Biographies: John Foster Dulles - Actor

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An American politician who served as United States Secretary of State (1953-1959) under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Born into a family of statesmen, he became an international lawyer and was a U.S. legal counsel at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as well as a member of the War Reparations Committee. He negotiated the peace treaty with Japan in the early 1950s as an advisor to President Harry S. Truman, but later became a strong critic of the administration's foreign policy. He was known for his staunch stance on communism and his management of the Suez, Indochina, and Lebanon crises. He appeared as himself in a number of works, including Hearts and Minds (1974). He died of cancer on May 24, 1959, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

• 29 May 2023
• Shaimaa Saied