[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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                              WALTER JUDD

  Mr. GORTON. Mr. President, Walter Henry Judd was born in a small town 
in Nebraska late in the year 1988 and died last week in a suburb of 
Washington, DC, at the age of 95. Born to a loving and religious 
family, Walter Judd was educated both as a physician and as a 
missionary in the Congregational Church. That church sent him as a 
medical missionary to China in 1925, where he served in a hospital far 
from the coast for some 5 years, finally driven home to the United 
States by the 46th attack of malaria which he caught on that mission.

  Even so, after only 2 years at home, he returned to China with a new 
wife and served as the superintendent of a hospital for another 5 
years, succoring tens of thousands of Chinese refugees from the 
Japanese invasion.
  Driven out of China for the last time by the Japanese, he returned to 
the United States in the years immediately preceding World War II and 
devoted his entire fortune to a speaking tour through 46 States of the 
United States, speaking 1,400 times about the threat of isolationism 
and the aggression of the Japanese against the people of the Republic 
of China.
  He was elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota in 1942 
and served in that body for some 20 years as perhaps its most eloquent 
warrior against both Nazi and Communist tyranny, and for freedom and 
liberty not only in his beloved China but in Europe as well. Helping to 
found the World Health Organization and organizations dealing with the 
welfare of children, he always, as a Member of Congress, I understand, 
was devoted particularly to the poor and the elderly and those without 
an organized voice in Congress.
  Even after his defeat for an 11th term in Congress, he continued to 
speak out passionately for liberty all around the world and continued 
to speak at religious retreats, including one remembered vividly by the 
distinguished senior Senator from Iowa, who has just spoken. He was 
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 by President Reagan 
who called him ``an articulate spokesman for all those who cherish 
liberty.''
  He continued to speak, I understand, until just 5 years ago when he 
finally retired at the age of 90.
  Mr. President, I never spoke one on one with Walter Henry Judd, but I 
am here not only to memorialize those elements of his life which I have 
briefly outlined, but to say that I was one of the hundreds of 
thousands of people who heard Walter Judd speak during that 2-year tour 
encompassing 46 States and some 1,400 audiences.
  During my freshman year in high school in Evanston, IL, Walter Judd 
spoke to a huge student body of some 3,200 and all of the faculty in 
the gymnasium of that high school. While I cannot repeat to you any 
single line presented to us on that morning by Walter Judd, I remember 
to this day his speech at the outset of World War II as the most 
inspirational single presentation I have ever heard in my life. I 
believe that it, more than any other single event, inspired this 
Senator to a life of public service and, most particularly, to the 
service of liberty and the strength and pride in his own country.
  I did have the ability shortly after I became a Senator to exchange 
letters with Walter Judd in retirement a decade or so ago and to report 
to him his impact on my life. I have no doubt, Mr. President, that he 
had a similar impact on the lives of literally thousands of people whom 
he never met in person. Truly an inspiration to thousands, truly a 
patriot, truly a servant to the cause of freedom and liberty in every 
corner of the world, Walter Henry Judd was a great American.
  Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mathews). Without objection, it is so 
ordered.
  (The remarks of Mr. Dodd pertaining to the introduction of S. 1860 
are located in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills 
and Joint Resolutions.'')

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