Evening star., 1953-01-07

grandfather, John Watson Fos-
ter, who had been Secretary OF
State in Benjamin Harrison's
cabinet, to the second Hague
conference in 1907. He has beer
busy off and on n international
affairs since.
Adams had something of an
edge on him in the matter Of an
early start. At the age of 1C
he sailed for France with his
father, who had been appointed
commissioner to that nation and
kept a journal that is a source
book for historians.
Mr.. Dulles, who had an i'm
portant Allied assignment at the
Versailles Peace Conference, has
been around a long time. It is
a bit surprising to realize that
he is only 81.
And he is a healthy 81 after
two years of the most intense
activity in drafting and selling
the Japanese peace treaty and
in speaking from the hustings
during the recent campaign. He
has a slight twitch near one eye
and he occasionally suffers the
pangs of gout. But, until the
Japanese Treaty work started
him burning the midnight oil
again, he played golf and ten
mis-. He hasn't given up golf but
a back strain occasioned by his
emulating Maurice E. McLough-
Inns smashing serve-the kind
where the server arches way back
to make the ball bounce at an
angle-has caused him to give
up tennis, at which he played a
really good game.
Tall, Affable and BuOyant.
Mr. Dulles is tall, affable.
buoVant, without trace of his
cosmopolitan experience in his
manner. He has more of the
friendly, although casual. atti-
tude of upstate New York. where
he was raised. He is a good
looking man, although not pho
togenic. His wide mouth which
lowers at the corners is likely
to picture him in grim and ogre
like attitudes which are not his
at all.
Reporters on the Helena, Gen.
Eisenhower's conference cruiser,
were surprised that Mr.. Dulles
was clutching a pair of wet
trunks when he came aboard via
helicopter from Wake Island
early in December. He misses
no opportunity for a swim. The
first time he stopped at Wake
on his Japanese treaty travels
he had no trunks. He went
swimming in his shorts.
Mr.. Dulles is the most uxorious
of husbands. The stag nature
of the get-together Gen. Eisen-
hover arranged in the Pacific
after all. there are no accom-
modations for woman guests on
a Warship and tradition is dead
against their being aboard at sea
for the first time in many years
prevented Mrs. Dulles from, trav-
cling with her husband.
She was with him throughout
the 125,000 miles he travelled in
negotiating the japanese treaty
on the Constellation
that had been used by Gen. Mar
shall. He would dictate to his
secretary. (He is always accom-
panied by a very efficient secre-.
tary like Mrs. Burnita ODay,
who is expected to return to him
from her present Pentago1 as
signment.) When not debating
likely as not he was scribbling
on one of the big yellow pads
that lawyers favor. When not
working he read the 25-cent edi-
tions of Agatha Christie, Erie
Stanley Gardner and other de-
tective story writer's which he
purchased by the score and
would trade with his assistants.
Before landing at any one of
the six capitals he visited. he
would write out a statement on
the purposes of the trip to hand
to the reporters at the airport.
He would always show these
statements to Mrs. Dulles before
having them typed.
Views Are Well Known.
No one has ever been ap-
pointed to the post whose views
on foreign policy are better
known. He has been shouting
them from the housetops, outlin-
ing them in speeches at home
and abroad. giving them the
short form in magazine articles,
the long form in books.
When Gen. Eisenhower called