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...barbarism, the degradation that helpless, innocent human beings suffered at the hands of Hitler's Nazi butchers is still horrendous enough. Now to learn that the Swiss banking system is holding on to millions in assets that belong to Holocaust victims or their heirs [WORLD, Feb. 24] is just another example of man's inhumanity. I hope that those fighting to right this wrong persevere and that justice prevails. NANCY L. MATSEY Grafton, West Virginia...
BERN, Switzerland: In a proposal that should please Jewish advocates without satisfying them, Swiss president Arnold Koller asked Parliament to establish a $5 billion fund to aid, among others, victims of the Holocaust and their families. The Swiss Foundation for Solidarity, to be set up in the coming year, would use proceeds from Swiss gold reserves that could produce several hundred million dollars a year, all while avoiding the use of Swiss taxpayers' money, an idea that is anathema to many conservatives. But Koller was careful to characterize the fund as a broad humanitarian measure--not a reparation. The money...
...Swiss--some at least--enjoy the gift of selective forgetting. In fact, the Swiss had a very good war, financially speaking, while all around them the world was coming...
...report and write this week's cover story on the Holocaust bank accounts and Nazi gold. It turned out to be something of a journalistic U-turn as well. "Previously my reporting in Switzerland was limited to the occasional business item," says Sancton. "Suddenly I was confronted with a Swiss story of major proportions, one with intrigue, human drama and historical scope." The tale, as Sancton tells it, is broader than Swiss banks and gold ingots. "It's all part of a great reckoning that is taking place as the world prepares to turn the page on the 20th century...
OTTAWA: Canadians would love to have their own Madeleine--Madeleine Kunin, that is. Trouble is it may be hard for the ex-Vermont Governor to give up her current job by the Swiss Alps for one near the Great Lakes. America's neighbor may have to settle for Renaissance Weekend founder Philip Lader, a good friend of Bill...