It is our contradictions that make us interesting. Eisenhower, the famed general, wanted more to be a man of peace than a man of war. Jingoism in other men had always made him uneasy. When he heard the news of the success of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, though it meant a quick end to the war in the Pacific, he was left with a feeling of severe depression, caused by the arrival of a new and terrifying chapter in man’s capacity to destroy man. Mary Bancroft, Allen Dulles’s acute lady friend, even thought that Ike’s hatred of war was a weakness, not unlike, she said, a prostitute who values her
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