Word: evian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
...date, the French have conducted their tests in the Algerian Sahara, but under the Evian agreements they must get out by mid-1967. The new site will be a 250,000-acre, twelve-mile-wide strip along the French Guiana coast to be rilled out with rows of launch cranes, quarters for technicians and a master command post. The French government has allotted an initial $60 million, and French agents are shopping in French-speaking Caribbean islands for 5,000 workers. Construction on what has already been nicknamed Cape de Gaulle is to start late next year, and France...
Alarmed by the growing wave of nationalization of French-owned property, the government of Charles de Gaulle last week demanded a new round of diplomatic talks with Algeria. France's complaint: Premier Ahmed ben Bella's headlong plunge into socialism is in serious violation of the 1962 Evian ac cords, which granted Algeria independence. At a National Assembly budget hearing, Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing hinted that French aid to Algeria might be slashed by amounts equal to "compensation that would be due French citizens for nationalizations or spoliations...
Strongman Ben Bella gave his answer at an Algiers "press conference" with 250 visiting Communist journalists: "The agreements of Evian are not the Koran for us. It will be necessary to revise and readjust them in regard to our socialist objectives." Furthermore, he warned, if France sets off any new nuclear explosions in its Algerian Sahara testing grounds, there will be "an acceleration of our socialism...
...concerned by the regime's callous, wholesale violation of its pledge to take no reprisals against the harkis, as Algerians call the 100,000 Moslem auxiliaries who fought against the F.L.N. in the French army. "Without this guarantee," says an angry French diplomat, "there would have been no Evian agreements." Only 5,000 harkis emigrated to France after independence. But of those who remained, many thousands have been shipped off to forced labor camps. Some were put to work clearing minefields-by being forced to walk across them. Many others have been tortured, mutilated and thrown into jail along...