My father was the U.S. Minister to Hungary just prior to World War II. and was the U.S. Representative to the United Nations War Crimes Commission. In that capacity. he took the initiative to have the Commission declare genocide a war crime. I myself served as vice president of the International Rescue Committee and was responsible for the IRCs refugee relief effort in Europe at the time of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. As a member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe. I have striven to secure the human rights of the oppressed people of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.