I welcome this opportunity along with the cooperation of my dear colleague. the distinguished gentleman from California to draw the attention of the Congress and the American public. to the deplorable and questionable circumstances surrounding Raoul Wallenberg. a Swedish diplomat who dissappeared towards the end of World War II. Raoul Wallenberg was sent to Budapest in the summer of 1944 on a special mission. The Swedish Government had just appointed him as First Secretary at the legation in Budapest. to direct the complicated and enormous task of saving the untold number of Jews from certain extermination at the hands of Nazi Germany. The decision to send him to Hungary was in response to requests from the American War Refugee Board and the World Jewish Congress. As we know now. Raouls activities to save Jews in Hungary. were phenomenal.