hemisphere but our own, he presided over the powerful Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, when every move of that committee was carefully watched and weighed by every foreign office in the world, where he used every manly endeavor to keep the horrors, the cruelty of modern war from our shores and from our sons, but at the same time with no craven poltroonery, no futile appeasement, but with that courage not shared by timid men that had led to the undoing of some other democratic countries, whose foreign policy was in hands so different, so fatally different than his. Not a Chamberlain, not a Daladier, he; rather a Winston Churchill! No Nevadan, no American, worthy of the name, but thrilled at his denunciation of that nation of assassins, the Japanese Empire. For years he had warned Americans of that peril, and had he had his way the exports to that country would long since have been shut off, and our fellow democracy, China, would not now be in its present plight. In ringing tones, just a few days before he died, with his masterly eloquence, he scoffed at and ridiculed the totalitarians of the Pacific, and a Nevada audience applauded him to the echo. No apostle of appeasement, KEY PITTMAN. I shall try to give as freely as he did when, during what were to be the last weeks of his life, with work piled upon work, with labor and yet more labor, what with his duties as a Senator, his duties as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, with his own campaign to be planned and organized, he was yet called upon to perform the duties of another man, a man who had shirked and who had retired to his tent in a vast and public petulance. KEY PITTMAN, in addition to everything else, must needs perform the duties of the Vice President of the United States, because, by virtue of the honor and trust his fellow Senators had in him, he was the President pro tempore of the Senate. It was more than mere flesh could bear. KEY PITTMAN at last broke under the strain. But he lived long enough to know that his fellow citizens had once more, as so often before, chosen him as the first amongst them. A mighty oak has fallen-a monarch of the forest is cut down. KEY PITTMAN was not born in Nevada or in the West, but he was the most western of men. Of him it can be said as was said of old by Ruth to Naomi: "Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried." Memorial Exercises in the Senate FRIDAY, April 25, 1941. The VICE PRESIDENT. Morning business is closed. Under the order of the Senate previously entered, the legislative business of the Senate is now suspended in order that memorial addresses may be delivered on deceased Members of the Senate. Rev. Albert J. McCartney, D. D., pastor, Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, of Washington, D. C., offered the following prayer: Very presently this honorable body is to discharge memorial offices of affection and respect for those, your fellow Members, who during recent years have passed into the beyond. Our devotions, therefore, will have regard to these offices: "Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us. "The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through His great power from the beginning. "Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies. "Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions. "Rich men furnished with ability, living peacebly in their habitations. "All these were honored in their generations and were the glory of their times. "Their bodies are buried in peace; but their names liveth for evermore." Let us pray. |