Editing John Foster Dulles (section)

==Advisor to Harry Truman==

Despite being a prominent Republican and having been a close advisor to Truman's opponent Dewey, Dulles became a trusted advisor of Harry Truman, especially on the issue of what to do with Japan, which was still under [[Occupation of Japan|U.S. military occupation]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=28|isbn=9780674988484}}</ref> In his role as an external "consultant" to Truman's State Department, Dulles became the key architect of the 1952 [[San Francisco Peace Treaty]] which ended the U.S. [[occupation of Japan]], as well as the [[Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan|U.S.-Japan Security Treaty]], which ensured that Japan would remain firmly in the U.S. camp in the [[Cold War]] and allowed the continuing maintenance of U.S. military bases on Japanese soil.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=12, 38–39|isbn=9780674988484}}</ref>

In 1951, Dulles also helped initiate the [[ANZUS]] Treaty for mutual protection with Australia and New Zealand.