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In 1918, Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State.
Dulles made an early impression as a junior diplomat by clearly and forcefully arguing against imposing crushing reparations on Germany.
Afterwards, he served as a member of the War Reparations Committee at the request of President Wilson.
Dulles, a deeply religious man, attended numerous international conferences of churchmen during the 1920s and 1930s.
In 1924, he was the defense counsel in the church trial of Rev.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, resigned his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church, which he had never joined.
Dulles also became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, an international law firm.
According to Karlheinz Deschner's book The Moloch Dulles ascribed assets of 1 billion dollars to the Nazi party in 1933 after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, and according to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, his firm benefited from doing business with the Nazi regime.
Throughout 1934, Dulles was a very public supporter of Hitler.
However, the junior partners, led by his brother Allen, were appalled by Nazi activities and threatened to revolt if Dulles did not end the firm's association with Hitler et al.
In 1935, Dulles closed Sullivan & Cromwell's Berlin office ; later he would cite the closing date as 1934, no doubt in an effort to clear his reputation by shortening his involvement with Nazi Germany.

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