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Memorial Tributes and Addresses
HELD IN THE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
TOGETHER WITH MEMORIAL SERVICES
IN EULOGY OF ALAN CRANSTON
Late a Senator from California
One Hundred Seventh Congress
First Session
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON : 2001
Compiled under the direction
of the
Joint Committee on Printing
CONTENTS
Biography.............................................
v
Proceedings in the Senate:
Tributes by Senators:
Biden, Joseph R., Jr., of Delaware.............
18
Bingaman, Jeff, of New Mexico..................
11
Boxer, Barbara, of California..................
7
Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia..............
5
Cleland, Max, of Georgia.......................
15, 32
Conrad, Kent, of North Dakota..................
23
Daschle, Thomas A., of South Dakota............
34
Dorgan, Byron L., of North Dakota..............
14
Durbin, Richard J., of Illinois................
35
Feinstein, Dianne, of California...............
3
Harkin, Tom, of Iowa...........................
23
Hollings, Ernest F., of South Carolina.........
16
Hutchison, Kay Bailey, of Texas................
10
Kennedy, Edward M., of Massachusetts...........
27
Kerry, John F., of Massachusetts...............
29
Leahy, Patrick J., of Vermont..................
17
Murkowski, Frank H., of Alaska.................
15
Reid, Harry, of Nevada.........................
7, 11
Rockefeller, John D., IV, of West Virginia.....
19
Sarbanes, Paul S., of Maryland.................
13
Proceedings in the House of Representatives:
Tributes by Representatives:
Baca, Joe, of California.......................
39
Dreier, David, of California...................
45
Farr, Sam, of California.......................
41
Filner, Bob, of California.....................
43
Harman, Jane, of California....................
37
Honda, Mike, of California.....................
42
Kucinich, Dennis J., of Ohio...................
47
Lantos, Tom, of California.....................
38
Napolitano, Grace F., of California............
37
Schiff, Adam, of California....................
40
Waxman, Henry A., of California................
46
Woolsey, Lynn C., of California................
44
Memorial Services:
Memorial Service, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco:..
51
Biden, Joseph, U.S. Senator from Delaware......
61
Cranston, Colette Penne........................
54
Cranston, Kim..................................
56
Davis, Gray, Governor of California............
59
Goodall, Jane, Primatologist...................
69
Granoff, Jonathan, CEO, Global Security
Institute.....................................
71
Hormel, James, former U.S. Ambassador to
Luxembourg....................................
66
Jones, Rev. Alan, Dean, Grace Cathedral........
53, 73
Lilienthal, Sally, president, Ploughshares Fund
64
Reynoso, Cruz, former Justice, California
Supreme Court.................................
70
Turnage, William, former president, Wilderness
Society.......................................
65
Turner, Ted, Founder, CNN......................
63
Wofford, Harris, former U.S. Senator from
Pennsylvania..................................
67
Memorial Tribute, Hart Office Building:............
75
Anderson, John B., former U.S. Representative
from Illinois.................................
96
Boxer, Barbara, U.S. Senator from California...
92
Cantwell, Maria, U.S. Senator from Washington..
106
Cleland, Max, , U.S. Senator from Georgia......
80
Cranston, Kim..................................
108
Feinstein, Dianne, U.S. Senator from California
87
Kennedy, Edward M., U.S. Senator from
Massachusetts.................................
90
Kerry, John F., U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
102
Miller, George, U.S. Representative from
California....................................
99
Montgomery, G.V. (Sonny), former U.S.
Representative from Mississippi...............
95
Simpson, Alan K., former U.S. Senator from
Wyoming.......................................
83
Steinberg, Judge
Jonathan ....
79, 82, 86, 89, 92, 94, 96, 99, 102, 106,
108, 110
BIOGRAPHY
Alan MacGregor Cranston was born on June 19, 1914, in
Palo Alto, California, to William MacGregor Cranston and
Carol (Dixon) Cranston, both of Scottish descent. Alan
Cranston and his sister Eleanor grew up in Los Altos,
where their father was in the real estate business.
At Mountain View Union High School in Los Altos, Mr.
Cranston was on the football and track teams, edited the
yearbook, and wrote articles for the school newspaper.
After graduating in 1932 he studied at Pomona College in
Claremont, California, for a year. He then spent a summer
term at the University of Mexico before enrolling the
following year at Stanford University, where he majored in
English. Discussions with campus friends about the
Depression, the New Deal, and the rise of nazism in
Germany had an important influence in shaping his ideas.
His keen interest in journalism led him to work as a
reporter for small-town newspapers during college
vacations.
After obtaining his B.A. degree from Stanford in 1936,
Mr. Cranston joined the staff of the International News
Service. From 1936 to 1938 he served in England, Germany,
Italy, and Ethiopia as a foreign correspondent. He
returned to the United States in 1939 and settled in New
York City, where he contributed articles to the American
Mercury and the New York Times Book Review and lectured on
such topics as the dangers of American isolationism, the
looming war, and the threat of fascism.
Having read the original of Adolf Hitler's ``Mein
Kampf'' in Germany, Mr. Cranston discovered that the
version then being distributed in the United States had
been edited to delete passages that might alert Americans
and the world to the threat of nazism. He prepared a
brochure, an abridged version with anti-Nazi explanatory
notes, and sold it for 10 cents a copy. The brochure,
published by the Noram Publishing Company in 1939, sold
500,000 copies before Hitler's agents got it banned by
American courts for copyright infringement.
In 1939 Mr. Cranston moved to Washington, D.C., where he
worked until 1941 as a representative of the Common
Council for American Unity, an organization whose
objective was to exercise a liberalizing influence on
legislation. After the United States entered World War II,
he joined the staff of the Office of War Information. He
served there for 2 years, from 1942 to 1944, as Chief of
the Foreign Language Division. It was partly as a result
of Mr. Cranston's efforts that Italian citizens in the
United States were removed from classification as enemy
aliens. A post-war Italian premier later suggested that it
was that act of friendship toward Italians that helped to
expedite Italy's decision to make peace with the Allies.
Mr. Cranston is also credited with the idea of having an
American town renamed Lidice in memory of the
Czechoslovakian town wiped out by the Germans in 1942. In
response, the Czech-American townspeople of Stern Park
Gardens, Illinois, renamed their town Lidice.
In 1944 Mr. Cranston enlisted in the U.S. Army as a
private and was assigned to an infantry unit in the United
States. Later he served as editor of Army Talk and co-
authored a pamphlet entitled ``Fascism.'' Discharged as a
sergeant in 1945, Mr. Cranston returned to Washington with
the determination to devote his efforts to world peace and
international organization. His book, ``The Killing of the
Peace'' (Viking Press, 1945), is an account of events from
1916 to 1923 that led to the defeat of the League of
Nations, with emphasis on the role of the United States.
The New York Times selected it as one of the 10 best books
of 1945.
Mr. Cranston had a pioneering role in the world
federalist movement that evolved after World War II with
the advocacy of the formation of a Federal union of
nations. He directed the executive committee of Americans
United for World Government and in 1945 took part in the
Conference on World Government in Dublin, New Hampshire,
which was attended by 30 writers, editors, lawyers,
educators, and others dedicated to the quest for peace. At
that conference he was assigned the task of presenting to
U.N. delegates, who met in London in February 1946, the
``Dublin Declaration,'' which proposed the transformation
of the U.N. General Assembly into a world legislature with
``limited but definite and adequate power for the
prevention of war.'' During that period Mr. Cranston
served as chairman of a world government conference at
Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1945-46 he was executive
secretary of the Council for American-Italian Affairs,
Inc.
In early 1947 he returned to California, where he
embarked on a successful career in real estate. He became
the head of Ames-Cranston Co., a Palo Alto firm founded by
his father. He later became president of Homes for a
Better America, a Los Angeles building company, and vice
president of the Carlsberg Financial Corporation, a Los
Angeles land investment firm.
Meanwhile, Americans United for World Government and
five other organizations merged in February 1947 to form
the United World Federalists, Inc., and Mr. Cranston was
elected head of the new organization's San Francisco
chapter. He later became chairman of its Northern
California branch. In 1949 the national executive council
of the United World Federalists unanimously elected Mr.
Cranston its national president. He served until 1952 and
continued to serve for years as 1 of 12 honorary vice
presidents of the United World Federalists.
An active Democrat, Mr. Cranston was a founder of the
California Democratic Council, a federation of local
Democratic clubs formed to revitalize the party after its
defeat in the 1952 presidential election. He became the
first president of the council in 1953 and served until
1958. In his first bid for public office, Mr. Cranston
successfully ran for Controller of the State of California
in 1958, becoming the first Democrat to hold that office
in 72 years. He was elected to a second 4-year term in
1962.
Mr. Cranston entered the U.S. Senate race in 1964 in
view of the ill health of incumbent Democratic Senator
Clair Engle of California. He lost the Democratic
nomination to Pierre Salinger, former White House press
secretary. In the Republican landslide of 1966, Mr.
Cranston was defeated in his bid for a third term as
Controller, although he received 47 percent of the vote.
He again entered the race for a Senate seat in 1968 and
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