My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.

Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.