name: Edmund A. Walsh
genres: Sovietology
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about: American Jesuit Catholic priest, author, professor of geopolitics. He is the founder of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, which he founded in 1919–six years before the U.S. Foreign Service itself existed–and served as its first regent.Strongly anti-Communist, it is alleged that Walsh was the man who first suggested to Senator McCarthy that he use this issue in order to gain political prominence. Walsh vigorously promoted anti-Communist thought throughout his career.