Adlai Stevenson: “The dead hand of Spain has been removed forever from the throats of her helpless victims.”

Looking back through the long vista of years, it is my honest belief that such singing as his, at home or abroad, I have never heard.

In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.

This coming together is no idle ceremony, no unmeaning observance.

In the advocacy, however, of what he believed to be for the public weal, 'he took counsel ever of his courage, never of his fears.' That he possessed the ability to have acquitted himself with honor in responsible positions of public…