[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 8 (Thursday, February 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 3, 1994]
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                  TRIBUTE TO SENATOR JOSEPH HURST BALL

  Mr. DURENBERGER. Mr. President, I rise today to pay special tribute 
to former Senator Joseph Hurst Ball, who passed away December 20, 1993.
  Joseph Hurst Ball was born November 3, 1905, in Crookston, MN, a 
pleasant farming community in America's heartland. But from these 
humble beginnings he would grow up to make his mark in foreign affairs, 
advocating as a U.S. Senator policies that would help shape a new 
Europe after the Second World War.
  Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1940 to complete the term of Senator 
Ernest Lundeen, Senator Ball advocated American intervention in the war 
in Europe. He recognized then what we understand so clearly today--that 
the fate of our Nation is linked closely to that of the rest of the 
rapidly shrinking world. Senator Ball was deeply concerned that 
Americans understand and support these international relationships.
  Senator Ball was instrumental in moving Congress to support the 
formation of an international dedicated to assuring collective 
security. This consensus proved central in framing the authority of the 
United Nations.
  Economic development was central to Senator Ball's plans for 
rebuilding Europe. His insistence on the development of closer linkages 
between Western European nations after the war was a significant factor 
in the formation of the Organization of European Economic Cooperation, 
the precursor to today's Common Market.
  Mr. President, Senator Bell has left us with the gift of foresight, a 
vision of a world bound politically and economically to international 
cooperation. It is not exaggerating to say that a great deal of Western 
Europe's peace and prosperity of the past 50 years--and by extension, 
much of the post-war global economic boom--rests in no small way on 
Senator Ball's contributions.

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