Edited Allen Dulles (3 results)
Great Spy Stories From Fiction
edited by Allen Dulles; with stories by Joseph Conrad, Ruyard Kipling, Rebecca West, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Published by A Giniger Book, Harper & Row 1969
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Unclipped dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding.
Published by Harper & Row, New York 1969
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Book Club Edition. xiv, 433 p. 22 cm. From Wikipedia: "Allen Welsh Dulles (April 7, 1893 January 29, 1969) was an American diplomat, lawyer, banker, and public official who became the first civilian and the longest-serving (1953 1961) Director of Central Intellig…ence (de facto head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) and a member of the Warren Commission. Between stints of government service, Dulles was a corporate lawyer and partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. His older brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State during the Eisenhower Administration. He was born on April 7, 1893, in Watertown, New York, and grew up in a family where public service was valued and world affairs were a common topic of discussion. Dulles was one of five children born to Presbyterian minister Allen Macy Dulles and his wife Edith Dulles (Foster). He was five years younger than his brother John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State and chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, and two years older than his sister, diplomat Eleanor Lansing Dulles. His maternal grandfather was John W. Foster, who was Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison. His paternal grandfather, John Welsh Dulles, had been a Presbyterian missionary in India. His uncle (by marriage), Robert Lansing, was also a U.S. Secretary of State.Dulles graduated from Princeton University, where he participated in the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, and entered the diplomatic service in 1916. When Dulles was serving in Switzerland, he was responsible for reviewing and rejecting Vladimir Lenin's application for a visa to the United States. In 1920, he married Clover Todd (March 5, 1894-April 15, 1974).In 1921, while at the US Embassy in Istanbul, Dulles may have helped to expose the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery to Philip Graves, a journalist working for The Times of London. The article was reprinted in The New York Times. In 1926, he earned a law degree from George Washington University Law School and took a job at Sullivan and Cromwell, the New York firm where his brother, John Foster Dulles, was a partner. He became a director of the Council on Foreign Relations in 1927, the first new director since the Council's foundation in 1921. He was the Council's secretary from 1933 to 1944. After Dulles graduated from college, he became a diplomat, and while posted in various European countries he gathered intelligence information. In the 1920s, he served five years as chief of the Near East division of the United States Department of State. From time to time during the late 1920s and early 1930s, he served as legal adviser to the delegation on arms limitation at the League of Nations. There he had the opportunity to meet with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Maxim Litvinov, and the leaders of Britain and France. In 1935 Dulles returned from a business trip to Germany appalled by the Nazi treatment of German Jews, and despite his brother's objections, led a movement within the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell to close their Berlin office. As a result of Dulles' efforts, the Berlin office was closed and the firm ceased to conduct business within Nazi Germany. As the Republican Party began to divide into isolationist and interventionist factions, Dulles became an outspoken interventionist, running unsuccessfully in 1938 for the Republican nomination in the Sixteenth Congressional District of New York on a platform calling for a strengthening of U.S. defenses. Dulles collaborated with Hamilton Fish Armstrong, the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, on two books, Can We Be Neutral? (1936), and Can America Stay Neutral? (1939). They concluded that diplomatic, military, and economic isolation, in a traditional sense, were no longer possible in an increasingly interdependent international system. Dulles helped a number of German Jews, such as the banker Paul Kemper, escape to the United States from Nazi Germany. Dulles was transferred to Bern, Switzerland, w.
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition; Later Printing. Gray boards, pristine, sharp and square, As New. Protected dust jacket clean and bright. As New. Book is firm in binding, 393 pages include Index. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 393 pages.
