Stevenson To Be Buried In U.S.A.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 11

Stevenson To Be Buried In U.S.A.

<N Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright* LONDON, July 15. The United States flag fluttered at half-mast in grey dawn over the British capital today as an official delegation flew from New York to claim the body of Adlai Stevenson. The eloquent American Statesman, the United States representative to the United Nations and a twicedefeated Democratic candidate for the Presidency, collapsed and died in a London street yesterday.

He had just left the United States Embassy in Grosvenor square. He was 65. Today his body lay in St. George’s Hospital. Doctors are expected to confirm today that he died of a coronary thrombosis —blockage of the artery to the heart. The United States delegation to London will be led by Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and is expected to include Mr Stevenson’s three sons, Adlai, jun., aged 34, Borden, aged 32, and John Fell, aged 29, as well as a number of close friends. Tentative plans are for the body to be flown to Washington and then to Springfield. Illinois, where Mr Stevenson was once State Governor. Interment is expected at Bloomington, Illinois, where he went to school and worked for a time as a newspaperman. In New York meanwhile. United Nations delegates are already speculating about Mr Stevenson’s successor. Formal Tribute None of the major United Nations bodies is in session or due to meet shortly, and the feeling in some quarters was that it might be appropriate to convene the Security Council in a special session so that envoys could pay formal tribute.

Mr Francis T. Plimpton. Mr Stevenson’s friend and roommate at Princeton University and deputy at the United Nations. will act as chief delegate pending a new appointment.

Mr Plimpton himself is high in the list of possible replacements. Some delegates speculated that the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Rusk, might be considered. Other possibilities mentioned included Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, the Negro Nobel prize-winning under-secretary for special political affairs in the United Nations Secretariat, General Maxwell D. Taylor, lately Ambassador to

Saigon, and Senator J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Good Health Mr Stevenson’s unexpected death was all the more stunning because he had appeared to be in good health. While in New York, he appeared at almost every Broadway theatre opening.’ He would stay up all hours at parties—both private and diplomatic. He would receive as many as six invitations to diplomatic receptions in one evening. He danced well, and never lost an eye for a pretty face and figure. Mr Stevenson squired the film star, Joan Fontaine, to New York night spots until she married a sports editor. He entertained Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in his suite at the WaldorfAstoria Towers and escorted Mrs John F. Kennedy to one of her first social appearances after her husband’s assassination. (Career, Page 17)