During the disastrous hurricanes and New England floods of 1955. General Herren directed the skillful and humanitarian efforts of his troops to avert tragedy which might well have followed had he not acted quickly and decisively. In the flight for freedom of the Hungarian patriots. it was General Heiren who personally directed the opening and Army operation of the Hungarian Refugee Center at Camp Kilmer. He threw excuses and delays out the window and prepared the Kilmer Center in a few days for the treinendous influx of grateful Hungarians who have come to be a world symbol in defiance of the evil forces of communism. In his capacity as senior member for the Army to the Mililtary Staff Committee of the United Nation.