Marietta Peabody Tree

Frances FitzGerald later became a noted journalist and historian.<br /><br /> Tree began a career as a fact checker, and latterly writer for Time magazine. At night she partied with the Astors, Paleys, and Warburgs; describing these years as: "a fever of happiness."<br /><br /> Her ardent liberal Democratic views clashed with those of her Republican husband and created tensions in the marriage. After America entered the Second World War in December 1941, Marietta accepted a post as part of the American delegation assisting the British Ministry of Information.<br /><br /> When Desmond left New York to fulfill a role in the war effort, Tree started a passionate and intense affair with the film director John Huston. Rumors and historians suggest that Tree was the only woman Huston ever truly loved, and one weekend their love making activity broke a friend's bed. When FitzGerald returned from his duties before the end of the war, Huston returned to Hollywood, California to await the promised divorce at Marietta's request. Read Less

But she was devoted to Stevenson, and although she refused to divorce Tree, she gladly accepted John F. Kennedy's offer of becoming the United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, aptly appointed under Stevenson as the head of the American delegation. Read Less

She was, his friends maintained, the only woman he ever really loved. Read Less