Walter had extremely strong basic ideas to which he remained faithful in all circumstances. as a great politician he showed that magic. keen discernment of being able to distinguish between possibilities and Impossibilities. By his pragmatic approach. his great command of facts. his prestige and his power of persuasion. he often knew how to shift the borderline between them and to change a political impossibility into a concrete reality. When Francis Walter took the lead in drafting the WalterMcCarran Immigration and Nationality Act. and later the Pastore-* Walter Act (through which. as the delegate of the Netherlands already mentioned. so many of my own countrymen were enabled to enter the United States). he little knew that he was taking part in constructing his own monument. But Americans old and new were quick to recognize what he had done for them and his country. Patriotic societies. veterans associations. religious communities. all honored him by awarding him their medals. plaques. or citations.
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