Tribute to Stevenson
Diocesan Press Service. August 9, 1965 [XXXIV-3]
After hearing of the death of Adlai Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Presiding Bishop Hines issued the following statement:
"This country, and the free world, have had few such gifted people who have served as tirelessly and as effectively as Mr. Adlai Stevenson. He brought to public office classical learning, historical perspective, genuine human compassion, often expressed in moving public utterance with clarity and majestic beauty. Rejected twice by the majority of voters for the highest office in the land, he was able to deal creatively with his frustration by reflecting honor upon a lesser but surely important position of responsibility. Not infrequently his clarion call of hope has been the only discernible one in a welter of confusion. His image is that of the cultured, educated man for whom fear held no decisive victory. He remains the kind of man only the free world could produce."
Memorial services for Ambassador Stevenson were held at Washington's National Cathedral.