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Dulles, John Foster |
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Dulles, John Foster (1888-1959)US lawyer and politician. Senior US adviser at the founding of the United Nations, he was largely responsible for drafting the Japanese peace treaty of 1951. As secretary of state 1952-59, he was an architect of US Cold War foreign policy and secured US intervention in South Vietnam after the expulsion of the French in 1954. He was highly critical of the UK during the Suez Crisis in 1956. Dulles presided over the creation of the CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) alliance in the Middle East and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
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