Editing Allen Dulles (section)

==Early career==
Initially assigned to [[Vienna]], he was transferred to [[Bern]], Switzerland, along with the rest of the embassy personnel shortly before the U.S. entered the First World War.{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=26}} Later in life Dulles said he had been telephoned by [[Vladimir Lenin]], seeking a meeting with the American embassy on April 8, 1917,{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=26}} the day before Lenin left Switzerland to travel to [[Saint Petersburg]] aboard a German train. After recovering from the [[Spanish flu]] he was assigned to the American delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]], along with his elder brother Foster.{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=36, 46}} 

In 1921, while at the US Embassy in [[Istanbul]], he helped expose ''[[The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]]'' as a forgery. Dulles unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the [[US State Department]] to publicly denounce the forgery.<ref>[[Richard Breitman]] et al. (2005). OSS Knowledge of the Holocaust. In: U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. pp. 11–44. [Online]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available from: Cambridge Books Online {{doi|10.1017/CBO9780511618178.006}} [Accessed April 20, 2016]. page 25</ref>{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=65, 80–81}}

From 1922 to 1926, Dulles served as chief of the [[Near East]] division of the [[United States Department of State|Department of State]]. He then earned a law degree from [[George Washington University Law School]] and took a job at [[Sullivan & 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 founding in 1921. He was the Council's secretary from 1933 to 1944 and its president from 1946 to 1950.<ref>[https://www.cfr.org/historical-roster-directors-and-officers Historical Roster of Directors and Officers], Council on Foreign Relations</ref>

During the late 1920s and the early 1930s, he served as legal adviser to the delegations on arms limitation at the [[League of Nations]]. He met with [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini]], Soviet Foreign Minister [[Maxim Litvinov]], and the prime ministers of Britain and France.{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=100, 112}} In April 1933, Dulles and [[Norman Davis (diplomat)|Norman Davis]] met with Hitler in Berlin on [[United States Department of State|State Department]] duty. After the meeting, Dulles wrote to his brother Foster and reassured him that conditions under Hitler's regime "are not quite as bad" as an alarmist friend had indicated. Dulles rarely spoke about his meeting with Hitler, and future CIA director [[Richard Helms]] had not even heard of their encounter until decades after the death of Dulles and expressed shock that his former boss had never told him about it. After meeting with German Information Minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], Dulles stated he was impressed with him and cited his "sincerity and frankness" during their interaction.{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=111-116}}

In 1935, Dulles returned from a business trip to Germany concerned by the [[Nazi]] treatment of [[History of the Jews in Germany|German Jews]] and, despite his brother's objections, led a movement within the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell to close their Berlin office.{{sfn|Mosley|1978|pp=91–92}}{{sfn|Grose|1994|pp=121–122}} The effort was successful, and the firm ceased to conduct business in Nazi Germany.{{sfn|Srodes|1999|pp=189–190}}

As the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] began to divide into [[isolationism|isolationist]] and [[interventionism (politics)|interventionist]] factions, Dulles became an outspoken interventionist, running unsuccessfully in 1938 for the Republican nomination in New York's [[New York's 16th congressional district|Sixteenth Congressional District]] on a platform calling for the strengthening of U.S. defenses.{{sfn|Srodes|1999|pp=189–190}} 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.{{sfn|Dulles|Armstrong|1936a}}{{page needed|date=September 2011}} Dulles helped some German Jews, such as the banker Paul Kemper, escape to the United States from Nazi Germany.{{sfn|Grose|1994|p=121}}