1966-THE MISSION-HANS HABE-WWII-EVIAN CONFERENCE-HISTORIC FICTION

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THIS BOOK IS DATED 1966 AND IS A SUPERIOR WORK OF FICTION. SOME INFO IS:

Whether or not The Mission will have the impact of The Deputy (the publisher\'s hope) this could easily be Habe\'s strongest novel since the incident on which it is based- carries the book well past his traditional if limited powers as a novelist. It is also little, if at all, known and the fact that it is not becomes another source of uneasy speculation: 200 foreign correspondents covered the Evian Conference, at which the Germans offered to sell 40,000 Austrian Jews at two hundred and fifty dollars a head, and only three newspapers reported the seven day conference-- minimally. These facts (and the attending functionaries, etc.) all document this novel which is historical in the original sense of the term. History stops, and the story starts at this point

The Évian Conference was convened at the initiative of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt in July 1938 to respond to the plight of the increasing numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Europe by the Nazis—and perhaps he hoped to obtain commitments from some of the invitee nations to accept more refugees, although he took pains to avoid stating that objective plainly. It was true that Roosevelt desired to deflect attention and criticism from his own national policy that severely limited the quota of Jewish refugees admitted to the United States.

For eight days, from July 6 to 15 at Évian-les-Bains, France, representatives from 32 countries and 39 private organizations and some 24 voluntary organizations met and formally discussed the issue among themselves, both orally and in writing. Golda Meir, the attendee from the British Mandate of Palestine, was the only representative of a landed Jewish constituency, but she was not permitted to speak or to participate in the proceedings except as an observer. Some 200 international journalists gathered at Évian to observe and report the conclave.

The dispossessed and displaced Jews of Austria and Germany were hopeful that this international conference would lead to acceptance of more refugees and safe haven. \"The United States had always been viewed in Europe as champion of freedom and under her powerful influence and following her example, certainly many countries would provide the chance to get out of the German trap.

EDITION - AMERICAN FIRST

THE AUTHOR IS HANS HABE

THE PUBLISHER IS HOWARD MCCANN

PAGE LENGTH IS 319

BOOK SIZE IS STANDARD

THE BINDING IS SOUND

THE INTERIOR IS CLEAN AND GOOD

THE OUTER PAGE EDGE SHOWS LIGHT FOXING

THE EXTERIOR IS BLACK CLOTH. MUCH FADE TO THE SPINE, MILD GENERAL WEAR. SOUND.

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