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Died. The Rev. Edmund Aloysius Walsh, S.J., 71, geopolitician, longtime foe of Communism and leading authority on Russia, who founded (1919) and directed (1919-55) Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. Jesuit Walsh directed (1922-23) a Papal Relief Mission in Russia, denounced Communism bitterly on his return to the U.S., warned against disarmament, advocated universal military training after World War II, said (1950) that the U.S. would be "morally justified'' in starting a preventive A-bomb war if it had "moral certitude" that a sneak attack were imminent...
...arrived, says Bob Jr., the father "suggested we go up and have our first good look at the Capitol. We left the Mayflower Hotel and hit a pretty confident course, but we took a right instead of a left. Instead of getting to the Capitol, we ended up in Georgetown." That was probably the first and last time that Robert Wagner Sr. steered a course to the right: a New Dealer in principle before the New Deal was born in fact, he is known to history as the author of the drastically pro-union Wagner Labor Relations...
...Tuesday and Wednesday in Lamont Forum Room. The first will discuss "General Education in Public and Private Colleges." Participants will include Earl J. McGrath, President of The University of Kansas City and former United States Commissioner of Education; Brian A. McGrath, S. J., Academic Vice President of Georgetown and Robert G. Crosen, Dean of the Faculty at Lafayette College...
...Austrian-born Roman-trained linguist whose work among Manhattan Puerto Ricans was recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, San Juan's Mayoress de Gautier and about 30,000 Puerto Ricans turned out for a Solemn High Mass on the terrace of Keating Hall. And then...
...Washington meetings will be held at Dumbarton Oaks, the University's estate in Georgetown, which is now devoted to research on Byzantine...