Evening star., 1952-11-16
Civic Leaders Honor
Father Walsh on His.
5Oth Year as Jesuit

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Men of prominence in the COM
munity and the Nation last night
Joined in eulogizing the Rev. Ed
mund A. Walsh, S. j., founder of
the Georgetown University School
of Foreign Service on the occasion
OF the 50th anniversary of his en-
trance into the Society of Jesus,
the Jesuit order.
The speakers included men of
the Protestant, Jewish and Catho-
lie faiths and their tributes told
the story of a career of distin-
guished service and important
missions for his church and the
Nation.
Cablegrams from former pupils
now serving in diplomatic posts
arrived in such number at the
Mayflower Hotel ballroom where
the testimonial dinner was held
that only a few were read. There
were also congratulatory messages
from former President Hoover, :,
Chief Justice Vinson, Secretary of
! State Acheson and FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover.
States His Civic Faith.
In response. Father Walsh re-
viewed his life and stated his
civic faith: THAT loyalty and
service to the legitimate needs
Of ones country is a dictate oil
moral law and discharge of civic
duty. In that conception of hu-
man rights limited by a. free ac-
ceptance Of social responsible
ties. the natural dignity of man
as a person is never denied but
elevated to serve as. a stepping
stone to his supernatural destiny
Man was not, created for the
state: on the contrary states are
instruments not ends in them
selves. Any government that
thinks otherwise has lost the rea-
son for its existence"
He termed the Russian revolu-
ton, nov transformed into a
messianic drive for world domi-
nation in the image of Marx.
Lenin and Stalin," the most i'm
portant single political upheaval
since the fall of the Roman EN-
pire."
The first Of the seven speakers
who paid tribute to the "jubi-
larian" Git is his golden jubilee
of priesthood) was the Apostolic
Delegate. the Most Rev. Amleto
Cicognani. The last was Gen. j
Lawton Collins. Army Chief Fl
Staff who presented him with a |
framed citation signed by Army
Secretary Frank Pace, jr., which
stated in part that time and
again he Gather Walsh has an
swered the call of the Army to
serve in positions of great respon-
Sibility."
Father Walsh has frequently
indoctrinated high ranking Army
officers in geopolitics through his
lectures at the War College and
the staff school at Fort Leaven-
worth.
Archbishop Cigognani told how
Pope Plus XI had chosen Father
Walsh as director Of the Papal
Relief Mission to Russia in 1922.
That was at the time he was serv-
ing in Russia as a member of the
American Relief Administration
under Herbert Hoover. The Arch
bishop also recalled that when
difficulties arose in Mexico, Father '
Walsh was chosen as Vatican ne.
gotiator.
Exposed MARKHAM Fallacies.
E. D. Merrill, president of the
Washington Board of Trade,
thanked the guest of honor for his
service in acquainting the COM
inunity with the nature and his
tory of Communism. The business
community appreciated Father
Walsh. he said, because of all the
things we businessmen like, it is
to hear from man who knows
what he is talking about"
One of his former pupils, Will
lard L. Beulac, now American Am
bassador to Cuba, credited Father
Walsh and the School of Foreign
Service with having a great deal
to do with the change in Ameri-
can thought from "complacent ,
isolationism" to responsible and
intelligent internationalism."
The Rev. Frederick Brown Har-
ris, chaplain of the Senate and |,
pastor of Foundry Methodist .
Church, said Father Walsh had
brilliantly exposed the fallacies
OF the MARKHAM theory of life.'
To Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld,
minister of the Washington He
brew Congregation, Father Walsh's I
service was similar to the man
with the shophar, the "horn of
warning and challenge" who !
stood between the enemy and the !.
Jews building the walls of Jeru- .
salem as told in the Old Testa-
ment Book of Nehemiah.
Chief Judge Harold M. Steph-
ems of the United States Court of
Appeals for the District of Colum-
bia. paid his tribute by giving
concise statement of Father
Walsh's teaching on the nature
Of the United States Government
and that of the totalitarian states.
"HOle Repairing" Recalled.
The toastmaster. B. M. Nickel
way, editor of The Star, remarked
on the singular anomaly" that