![]() ![]() When Eisenhower became president he made John Foster his Secretary of State and Allen his CIA chief. John Foster’s Christianity was deeply aligned with making money off of his client’s investments and fighting communism, all of these went together in John Foster’s mind. Allen challenged his brother asking him how he could support Hitler and call himself a Christian. John Foster steadfastly supported Hitler apologizing for him right up to America’s entry into the war. Allen could see Hitler was evil and trouble in the early thirties. Allen had some nuance, John Foster was Manichean.īoth worked for the global law firm Sullivan and Cromwell which had extensive investment in Germany in the thirties. Allan was a charmer, warm and engaging, and a womanizer. ![]() John Foster was reserved, starchily correct and a loyal husband. Despite their similar views they had completely opposite personalities. Both saw a world in need of the paternalistic leadership of the United States to defend it against bolshevism. Both saw corporate interests, American interests and Christian morality as deeply intertwined. Both had a strict Presbyterian upbringing. John Foster and Allen Dulles looked at the world through the same prism. As bad as the George W and chief henchman Dick Cheney legacy is, Eisenhower’s and the Dulles brothers’ is arguably worse…at least as bad. Great book! Makes you question the notion that competence in managing American foreign policy has declined in recent years. ![]()
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