asked the Soviet leaders there about the history and the famine, and they said that was just an unfortunate chapter, and they blamed it on the capitalist and the Nazi regimes, their threat of invasions, and they had all the propaganda stories. So, this is going to be very helpful to us to publish this information, to do a report to make sure that the people in this country and outside our country are exposed to this type of treachery. It moves me to see the generosity of you who have come forward today and given this testimony, for those of us who hope to learn and to bring about changes in the world so that this type of action won’t come. I have also visited Ethiopia and seen starvation there caused by a government which wants to push them to one side of the civil con¬flict there, and it is enough to make you want to cry. Indeed, the loss of human life is something we cannot ever give up or take for granted or accept; that is the purpose of your elected representatives and those of you who worked so hard for the creation of the Commission, my two commissioners here, many of you in this room: we thank you for that effort Our democracy works slowly sometimes, but we have an opportunity to put together a good report We have a good staff on the Commission, and I look for¬ward to another hearing later this week in my home state of Phoenix, Arizona. We will have several other hearings. There is going to be one in Philadelphia in May and we are gathering some very fine testimony.

We thank you all for being here today.
The Committee will stand at recess.
(Whereupon, the hearing was adjourned at 3:50 p.m.)