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vw MARCH 18. . Ontario House H e Monors, Canadian Club Ch M l *h PP Recess Sweeps Aside | Legislature Formality; ; Members Introduced _ 'SAME STUFF AS YOU' f #emanan mm nccmmenmne The Ontario Legislature yesterda; set aside Provincial business fot half an hour to pay tribute to Sen-- etor Claude Pepper of Florida, a friend of Great Britain, whose out-- spoken support did much to speed the important lease--lend bill. Premier Hepburn moved the 're. 1 cess. Formality held sway until Speaker James Clark stepped down from the Throne. Then the Pre-- mier led Senator Pepper to the point where Mrs. Pepper sat with Mrs. Albert Matthews, wife of the _ Lieutenant--Governor, under the gal-- lery. He brought them forward to the floor of the House, close by where the King and Queen had re-- ceived their legislators, and, with Col. George A. Drew and Conserva-- tives in the lead, introduced each member to the distinguished visitors. "Never Such Intimacy." The ceremony took place directly * after Senator Pepper in an address to the House, standing in the place of Major Colin Campbell, absent on active service, pledged the support e# of his country to the British Em-- pire and to Greece in the war and coupled with this pledge, a second one, that after the war is over his country would not "run out on the world." "For what he has done for Brit-- ain, we cannot measure in terms to-- day," said Premier Hepburn. "He has rendered such a service that the name of Senator Pepper will live in the hearts of the British people." "Never before has there been such an intimacy of fecling between the people of Canada and the Unit-- ed States as there is today," Colonel Drew said. HMHe believed the first step in bringing about a changed world after the war, a world in which the nations might in peace and goodwill settle international : problems, depended upon the de-- velopment of understanding. * "No one has contributed more to that spirit of understanding than vou, sir," Colonel Drew told the Senator. t U.S. Needs No Club. Democracy "in your country and mine" has met the problems of the machine age without violating the essential rights founded in institu-- tions emanating from the people themselves, the Senator said. Now, in the war, Canada was meeting the challenge that strikes at its heart, while the people of the United States "who need not be clubbed to come into line," through the processes of democracy "have come to the solemn conclusion _that today with Canada and the British Com-- i monwealth we stand as one against & sinister force. "We can pledge that we are of the same stuff as you," continued Senator Pepper. "When we have put our teeth into something, we do not quit. Wg have resolved that : we shall not quit until the weaponsi * are torn from Hitler's vicnpus hands and the world can live wltpout the . voice of hate and destruction," o en mmmmmmmmmmmmmmemmmmmmnmnmmnnmnmnmmmnnn ce