HABE, HANS — The Mission

NY: Coward - McCann, Inc, 1966. First American Edition. Book Club Edition. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover, top edge red. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock. "In July of 1938, less than five months after Hitler's rape of Austria, Franklin D. Roosevelt convened the International Conference on Refugees, at Evian-les-Bains, a small French spa on the Swiss border. The official purpose of the conferene was to deal with the growing number of Jewish refuees fleeing for their lives from Hitler's Europe. Thirty-Two nations agreed to attend the conference, as well as observers from the Vatican, Jewish organizations in the United States, France and Britain, and Zionist groups from Palestine. The questions facing the delegates at Evian were hard ones, both political and moral." This story is a fictionalization of that crucial gathering, an event carefully buried in the pages of history--because it might have prevented the slaughter of millions. The volume is in perfect condition; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The dust jacket is mildly browned along the top edge with a stain at the head of the spine. FINE/VERY GOOD. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 319 pp. Fine in Very Good dust jacket .