Members of Supreme Court attend service for late Justice Butler. Washington, D.C., Nov. 17. Members of the United States Supreme Court, who acted as honorary pall bearers for the late Justice Pierce Butler, are shown leaving St. Matthews Cathedral today where a high requiem mass was sung as a final tribute. Reading in pairs from left to right: Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justices Owen J. Roberts, and Harlan Fiske Stone, Associate Justice Stanley F. Reed and Hugo L. Black, retired Justice George Sutherland and Justice Felix Frankfurter, retired Justice Willis Van Devanter and Justice William O. Douglas

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made is a 1986 book by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas about a group of U.S. government officials and members of the East Coast Establishment. The book starts with post - World War I period and continues in the immediate post-World War II international development, describing how the group of six men of quite different political affiliations developed the containment policy of dealing with the Communist bloc during the Cold War and crafted institutions such as NATO, the World Bank, and the policies of the Marshall Plan. Six people who were influential in the development of Cold War: 1. Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman 2. Charles E. Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, the Philippines, and France 3. W. Averell Harriman, Special Envoy for President Franklin Roosevelt 4. George F. Kennan, Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia 5. Robert A. Lovett, Truman's Secretary of Defense 6. John J. McCloy, a War Department official and later U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.