"Our institutions reflect the belief of our founders that all
men were endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights...
They believed that human institutions ought primarily to help
men develop their God-given possibilities," stated Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles, who was born FEBRUARY 25, 1888, in the
home of his Civil War general grandfather. A Presbyterian
pastor's son, John Foster Dulles graduated from Princeton,
studied law at George Washington University, was an Army Major
in WWI and a U.S. Senator. He was appointed by President Wilson
as legal counsel to the U.S. delegation at the 1918 Versailles
Peace Conference. Dulles was foreign policy adviser to New York
Governor Thomas Dewey in his campaigns for President in 1944 and
1948, and took an active role in establishing the Republican
plank calling for the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth in
Palestine. Dulles became an adviser to President Truman,
opposing the U.S. atomic attacks on Japan, stating: "If we, as a
professedly Christian natio