Speech #880047052

I want to add my voice to those raised in birthday greetings to and in personal praise of the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania . As the ranking minority member. I have been privileged to serve under his chairmanship on the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary. Never has any chairman of any committee or any subcommittee of the House of Representatives enjoyed more universal and more unreserved respect among the members of his committee. When we refer to him as the gentleman from Pennsylvania. we intend more than an idle formal expression. for he is in truth a gentleman in every sense which that word denotes. As gentlemanly and as genteel as he is. he is not wanting in that quality of firmness. without which no gentleman can be a true man. That quality of firmness. born of deep dedication to principle and courage of conviction. has enabled him to stand steadfastly when the storms of controversy would have dislodged a lesser man. Congressman WALTER was not only the sponsor and the patron but the principal architect of the WalterMcCarran Act. which is generally acknowledged to be the most generous immigration and naturalization statute on the books of any modern nation of the world. He was also the moving force in the establishment of the International Committee on European Migration. which has resettled countless thousands of displaced persons. the hapless victims of tyranny and persecution. Perhaps no man in the history of the world has touched more lives in more remote and isolated areas of the world in a more benevolent way than has the gentleman from Pennsylvania. "TAD" WALTER.