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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...
...much is fact. Author Habe was in Evian-les-Bains that July covering the conference for Prager Tagblatt, a German-language newspaper published in Prague. He knew Professor Neumann, Hitler's conscripted auctioneer, and as the meeting progressed to its apathetic conclusion-the offer refused, nothing whatsoever done about the Jews-Habe took copious notes on the proceedings and his long private sessions with the doctor. On that foundation, Habe, now 55, has built what he calls a documentary novel: the story of humanity's failure at Evian-les-Bains...
...reader may be hard put to feel much indignation. In the catalogue of Hitler's crimes, Evian-les-Bains amounted to little more than a misdemeanor. Hitler went on to destroy German Jewry, and Habe sensibly does not suggest that the successful sale and salvation of 40,000 Jews in 1938 would have prevented that wholesale slaughter. As Habe admits, Hitler probably never intended to find a market at Evian-les-Bains; his purpose may have been to show, by the free world's refusal to enter into such a negotiation, that anti-Semitism is merely a matter...
...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...
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...