Word: evian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep it . . . with no thought for the world that crowds steadily in upon this would-be tight little island." He was in Spain when Franco drove to the Mediterranean in April 1938, when Barcelona fell. He visited Austria during the savage Jew-baiting that followed the Anschluss, attended the Evian Conference and pours scorn on it: "To the best of my knowledge and belief, no Jew who has escaped from the hell of life in Germany owes anything whatsoever to this meeting...
...London last week, the delegates of 27 States who recently met at Evian-les-Bains to discuss aiding European refugees set up their new permanent bureau. Earl Winterton, lofty Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was elected chairman.* His first job was to hear complaints from Britain's own dominions. The Northern Rhodesian Legislative Council, spokesmaned by Sir Leopold Moore, angrily protested a rumor that 500 German Jewish families would be sent to settle in Rhodesia. "Why," exploded Sir Leopold, "can we not have instead 500 British colonists who are not Jews...
Bleakest prospect facing the permanent Refugee Organization, which gets down to work this week in London, is to persuade the German Government to allow refugee Jews to carry out of the country most of their property or cash. Despite warm words of idealism doled out at Evian-les-Bains few weeks ago when the permanent Organization was set up, the hard fact remains that no nation is willing to receive penniless Jews...
...believe the problem "insoluble" last week was U. S. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, whose publishers seized the occasion to release her 122-page, fact-packed book, Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?*. No secret is it that Miss Thompson's magazine and newspaper crusade stimulated President Roosevelt to call the Evian meeting. Into her book Newspundit Thompson crams a survey of the post-War history of the refugee problem and a grandiose proposal to deal with...
...Evian is the home of a famous spring of still and unexciting table water. After a week of many warm words of idealism, few practical suggestions, the Intergovernmental Committee on Political Refugees took on some of the same characteristics. Two days of stalling went on before a president was elected. No delegate wanted the post, each fearing that his nation would then be responsible for the conference's all-too-probable failure. Finally stocky, publicity-hating Myron C. Taylor, onetime Chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. and chief U. S. delegate, agreed to accept...