Speech #880273347

I hold it a tribute more factual than rhetorical to suggest that there are millions of people around the world who owe their post World War 3I security and happiness in part to this remarkable toiler for legislative justice. Besterman was not only immersed in the traditional decency of the American heritage. He sought not only to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees who were homeless and stateless and who represented the rejected human flotsam and jetsam of the greatest war of all time. Much more than that he wanted to help them within the practical limits acceptable under law and with the truest possible regard for the public interest and the American capacity to deal with the problem. He was not an undisciplined idealist or what is sometimes cynically called a dogooder acting out of an overabundance of the milk of human kindness.