Background
Edmund Aloysius Walsh was born in Boston, Massachussets, the son of John Francis Walsh, a policeman, and Catherine Josephine Noonan.
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Edmund Aloysius Walsh was born in Boston, Massachussets, the son of John Francis Walsh, a policeman, and Catherine Josephine Noonan.
He attended schools in Boston and Dorchester, and then Boston College High School, where he was a good student and a member of the track team. In 1902 Walsh entered the Society of Jesus at its novitiate in Frederick, Md. Seven years later, he completed undergraduate studies at Woodstock College, Md. He went to the National University at Dublin and to London University for further study of the classics.
He was assigned to teach at Georgetown Prep in Washington, D. C. In September 1913, Walsh began theological studies at Innsbruck. Austria, but the outbreak of World War I in 1914 forced him to complete his theology course at Woodstock College, where he received the M. A. and was ordained in 1916. After a further year of study, he returned to Georgetown University and, in May 1918, became dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Almost immediately Walsh was appointed by the War Department to a board of five educators who were to coordinate studies for the Students' Army Training Corps, and served as its educational director for the New England area. This experience convinced him that American education gave insufficient attention to the study of international relations, diplomacy, and foreign languages. In 1919 he established the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown to meet these needs. Despite his numerous absences from the campus, the school remained Walsh's major interest until his death. He served as its regent until 1952, regularly taught in the program, and took every opportunity to advance its work. In 1920 he completed his doctorate at Georgetown and in 1924 became vice-president of the university. In February 1922, Walsh was summoned to Rome and directed to survey famine conditions in Russia and, if possible, to arrange an affiliation of the proposed Papal Relief Mission with the American Famine Relief Mission already operating in the Soviet Union. Walsh arranged the affiliation, and became director of the Papal Relief Mission and a member of the American mission. In addition he was named Vatican representative for safeguarding the interests of the Catholic Church in Russia. Dealing first with the famine, Walsh directed the activities of the dozen other members of his band in Moscow, Petrograd, Rostov, and the Crimea, and soon was feeding 150, 000 children a day. With the relief operation in full swing, Walsh turned to the safeguarding of clergy and church property in Russia. Despite strenuous efforts, he had little success in deflecting or delaying Soviet aims with respect to religious liberty. His experience convinced him that the antipathy of the Russian leadership to religion and to the humanistic values of the West would prove dangerous. Walsh took it as his task to alert Americans to the danger: he introduced a course called "Russia in Revolution" at the School of Foreign Service, built the Russian holdings of the school, and began to lecture widely on the Russian experiment and its implications. His first book, The Fall of the Russian Empire (1928), was not so much a chronicle of the last years of the Romanovs as a study of the methodology and philosophy of the Bolsheviks. The Last Stand (1931) analyzed the first Five-Year Plan and its relation to the ultimate aims of the Soviet government. From 1926 to 1931 Walsh was president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. In 1929 he served with Ambassador Dwight Morrow and Miguel Cruchaga on a special commission in Mexico that facilitated a relaxation of tensions between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church. In 1931, as papal legate, he established the basis upon which the American College in Baghdad was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1932. In 1934 he published Ships and National Safety, a brief argument for the redevelopment of the American merchant marine. In 1935 and 1939 he was a visiting lecturer at the Academy of International Law, The Hague, and in 1942 became a consultant to the War Department. After World War II, Walsh served as a civilian consultant to the chief American counsel, Robert H. Jackson, at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and in 1947-1948 was visitor general of the Society of Jesus in Japan, where he recommended reorganization of its missions and educational efforts. In 1949 he published Total Power, an analysis of the anatomy and abuse of power as illustrated by the rise and fall of the Nazi movement. Total Empire, his study of communist geopolitical aims, strategy, and tactics, appeared in 1951. Until 1952 he continued to lecture widely under private auspices and at such institutions as the Army War College and the National Police Academy. In 1949 he established the Institute of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown. Walsh's lectures and publications and the influence of the School of Foreign Service were such that in 1952 the Christian Century could assert that no "other Roman Catholic has had an impact on the policy of the United States government since World War I to compare with" Walsh's. He died in Washington, D. C.
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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.
Walsh was a member of President Harry S. Truman's commissions on universal military training and on religion and welfare in the armed forces, and served on the Academic Advisory Board of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy.
For the last four years of his life Walsh was an invalid, frequently hospitalized but always planning a return to his work.