Dulles John Foster 1959

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1959 May 28 p. 1, 3

Birth date: 1888

text of obituary:

FUNERAL FOR SECRETARY DULLES HELD WEDNESDAY

Funeral services for former secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who died quietly in his sleep Sunday, were held Wednesday at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac from Washington.

Besides President and Mrs. Eisenhower, other high government officials and dignitaries from all over the world attended.

The 71-year-old Dulles could not cope with the second attack of cancer as he did with the first one over a year ago. Discovered early in January, the cancer quickly took its course and already in February it became apparent that this time there was no help.

Although his policies were often a subject of much controversy at home and abroad, Dulles was almost universally recognized as one of the most able statesmen in U. S. history.

The Big Three secretaries at the Geneva conference — U. S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville — flew in from Europe to attend. A last-minute report stated that even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was panning to come along from Geneva.

Dulles, a son of a Presbyterian minister, was a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. Leading Presbyterian clergymen were in charge of the funeral.