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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Ocho Rios. Jamaica
Georgetown. Grand Cayman
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Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Cozumel. Mexico
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Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

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Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Step ashore on the island that's the birthplace of reggae, and find some of the Caribbean's most beautiful
beaches. Nearby, you can visit authentically-restored Great Houses: stroll through the enchantingly
beautiful Shaw Park Gardens; explore the Runaway Caves, once a haunt for pirates and smugglers:
or climb the magnificent cascade at Dunn's River Falls. Don't forget to pick up a souvenir recording
of reggae or calypso music!

Georgetown, Grand Cayman
The tiny capital and main port of the Cayman Islands. A day here will give you time to visit famous
Seven Mile Beach, a thin ribbon of talcum-soft white sand stretching along an invitingly blue sea.
Beach connoisseurs will be in seventh heaven here, as will divers and snorkelers. For serious shop-
pers, the duty-free wares are equally tempting: crystal. perfumes, silver and prized pink coral.

Playa del Carmen, Mexico
This village is your port for shore excursions to the relics of Yucatan's Mayan civilization at Tulum.

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Cozumel, Mexico
As island with everything you need for a Mexican get-away: swimming, snorkeling, sailing and other
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W

ashington — July
marked the 50th
anniversary of one
of civilization's tragic failures
— the international con-
ference in Evian in the sum-
mer of 1938.
For nine days in this French
resort town on the shores of
Lake Geneva, representatives
from 29 countries convened at
the invitation of President
Franklin Roosevelt to discuss
the future reception of Jewish
refugees from Germany and
Austria.
In the five years between
1933 and 1938, more than
150,000 Jews had emigrated
from Germany. However, after
the Anschluss of March 1938,
when Germany incorporated
all of Austria, the situation
grew ever more desperate for
the Jews still inside the reich.
No havens could be found.
Those who wanted to leave
Germany could still go if —
and only if — a country were
willing to accept them.
The United States was
reluctant to receive addi-
tional refugees. Quotas were
rigidly enforced. Legal provi-
sions — such as LPC (Likely
to Become a Public Charge)
and CGC (Certificate of Good
Conduct) clauses — were ar-
bitrarily invoked to restrict
immigration even further.
Thus a. physician, even one
with some savings, could be
excluded from the United
States on the flimsy excuse
that he might not qualify for
a license to work in his field,
thereby becoming a public
charge.
The seemingly innocuous
provision that all prospective
immigrants receive from
their nation's police a Cer-
tificate of Good cnduct forced
German Jews to seek ap-
proval from the very same
Gestapo that was committed
to their persecution.
Britain was unwilling to
change its restrictive policy
regarding German-Jewish
immigration. Latin American
countries, with only a few ex-
ceptions, were willing to
receive Jews who were not
wealthy, and Canada's policy
toward the Jewish refugees
was described as "None were
too many."
In France, transit . camps
were set up to contain the
refugees. Neutral

Harvey M. Meyerhoff is
chairman of the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Council.

Switzerland refused to accept
any Jews and asked the Ger-
man Foreign Office to
distinguish between ordinary
Germans whom they welcom-
ed and Jewish Germans
whom they turned back at
the border.
The nine days of delibera-
tion at Evian, which includ-
ed pious pronouncements
matched by skilled foot-
dragging on the part of the
diplomats, confirmed the Ger-
man perception that no one
wanted the Jews.
German Foreign Minister
Joachim von Ribbentrop
described a conversation he
had with French Foreign
Minister Georges Bonnet in a
letter later that year to Adolf
Hitler:
"Bonnet said that in the
first place they did not want
to receive any more Jews from
Germany and whether we
could not take some sort of
measures to keep them from
coming to France, and that in
the second place France had
to ship 10,000 Jews
somewhere else .. .
"I replied to M. Bonnet that
we all wanted to get rid of our
Jews but that the difficulties
lay in the fact that no coun-
try wished to receive them."
The only victor from Evian
was the one country that was
not invited to the conference
— Nazi Germany.
Within months, the Jews in
Germany and Austria were to
feel the impact of the failure
of Evian in the pogroms
known as Kirstallnacht
when, on the night of Nov.
9-10, 1938, their synagogues
were burned, their homes in-
vaded, their businesses looted
and 20,000 Jewish men
arrested.
Evian marked a bitter mo-
ment in Western history. It
marked an even more impor-
tant point in Nazi Germany's
policy towards the Jews.
Emigration was no longer
feasible for there was no coun-
try willing to receive Jews.
With an ideology bent on
making the reich Judenrein
— free of Jews — the next
stage required a decision to
kill, which was not too long
delayed. By September 1939,
systematic euthanasia was in
place.
By 1940; ghettos in the
East were established. By
1941, wholesale slaughter
was under way in previously
Soviet-controlled territory.
And by 1942, the Nazis began
implementing the so-called
Final Solution, and six
million Jews were murdered.
Surely these nine . days were