Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo was saddened in his last years over the persecution of the Jews, but his sadness was tempered “by his confidence that America would never abandon its great ideals,” declared Judge Irving Lehman of the New York Court of Appeals, close friend, at whose home Mr. Cardozo spent his last weeks, at a memorial meeting here yesterday.
The jurist’s last years were “darkened by the knowledge that in other lands men who are his kin in blood and spirit are being driven from their homes,” Judge Lehman told more than 100 of the country’s leading lawyers who gathered to pay tribute to Justice Cardozo. “But his faith never weakened that America will never abandon its great ideals, that might cannot always triumph over right and that democracy will again come into its own over all the world.”
Resolutions of sorrow and tribute were offered by Assistant Attorney General John L. O’Brian as chairman of a committee of 36. Other speakers were Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson, former Attorney General William D. Mitchell, Former Senator George W. Pepper, president of the American Law Institute; former Undersecretary of Treasury Dean G. Acheson, and Monte M. Lehmann, president of the Louisiana State Bar Association.
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