(1902–1985), was the chief United States delegate to the United Nations, 1953–1960; a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1937–1953, except for the years 1944–1946 when he resigned to serve in World War II; Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, 1960; ambassador to South Vietnam, 1963–1964, 1965–1967; ambassador to West Germany 1968–1969; Presidential emissary to the Vatican, 1970–1975.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., was the grandson of Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who vigorously opposed President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for a League of Nations after World War I. He was also the great-great-grandson of George Cabot (1752–1823), the member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, and a U.S. Senator.
On December 30, 1955, in a letter sent to each member state of the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., stated:
I propose that God should be openly and audibly invoked at the United Nations in accordance with any one of the religious faiths which are represented here. I do so in the conviction that we cannot make the United Nations into a successful instrument of God’s peace without God’s help—and that with His help we cannot fail. To this end I propose that we ask for that help.3537