Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., founder of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
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Priest, educator, scholar, and statesman, Edmund A. Walsh, S.J. (1885-1956) established the School of Foreign Service in 1919, the first of its kind in the U.S. While remaining actively involved in the running of the school, he undertook many international trips and diplomatic missions. He directed the Papal Famine Relief Mission to Russia in 1922, worked on behalf of the Vatican to resolve church and state in Mexico in 1929, negotiated with the Iraqi government to establish an American College in Baghdad in 1931, and served as Consultant to the U.S. Chief of Counsel at the Nuremberg Trials. President Eisenhower sent a letter to Georgetown University when Father Walsh died, which read in part, "The death of Father Walsh is a grievous loss to the society in which he served so many years, to the educational and religious life of the United States and to the free people of the Western World. For four decades, he was a vigorous and inspiring champion of freedom for mankind and independence for nations... at every call to duty, all his energy of leadership and wisdom of counsel were devoted to the service of the United States."
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Footnotes to history : selected speeches and writings of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., founder of the School of Foreign Service
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