Editing Foreign Affairs (section)

===1922–1945===
The lead article in the first issue of ''Foreign Affairs'' was written by the former [[United States Secretary of State|secretary of state]] under [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s administration, [[Elihu Root]]. The article argued that the United States had become a [[world power]], and that as such the general population needed to be better informed about international matters. [[John Foster Dulles]], then a financial expert attached to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, who would later become [[United States Secretary of State|secretary of state]] under [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], also contributed an article to the inaugural issue of ''Foreign Affairs'' on Allied debt following World War I.<ref name=History>[[William Bundy|Bundy, William P.]] (1994). [https://web.archive.org/web/20151003100412/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/history "History"]. ''Foreign Affairs''.
:: Notes on an exhibit of materials related to the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and ''Foreign Affairs'' at the Firestone Library of [[Princeton University]], Fall 1993.</ref>

In 1925, ''Foreign Affairs'' published a series of articles, entitled "Worlds of Color",<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/1925-04-01/worlds-color |title=Worlds of Color |last=DuBois |first=W. E. B. |author-link=W. E. B. Du Bois |journal=Foreign Affairs |date=April 1925 |volume=3 |issue=April 1925 |pages=423–444 |doi=10.2307/20028386 |jstor=20028386 |access-date=September 27, 2016}}</ref> by prominent [[African American]] intellectual [[W. E. B. Du Bois]]. DuBois, a personal friend of Armstrong, wrote mainly about race issues and imperialism. Although in the early days of publication the journal did not have many female authors, in the late 1930s American journalist for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine [[Dorothy Thompson]] would contribute articles.<ref name=History/>