history, the year was 1947, and the former 1st lady stayed in the suite while drafting a major paper for the united nations. there she, those are you except shallow. who the veteran ascii follow mando. we are here in a very special place where people who have shaped the world have stayed as guests of new social policy with all the heads of state politicians and people who participated in the great geneva conferences after edition. i will end of course, eleanor roosevelt, an unforgettable personality for geneva, an earlier who said she was in charge of a commission to draft the universal declaration of human rights. and she did it here on charlotte commercial or get hot enough kiara it. i believe this is the fundamental document of the united nations, like a guiding star. so look, you're more formal to all dirty nostrils. you knew it says you really to all the child, you know, couple the cities,

hotels in the united nation. so the very special relationship during state visits, hotel serve is the link between backroom politics and official announcements. it's the point between private conversations and well to face the like a discrete unofficial partner to the un. ah, the most momentous, international conference of the post war era, turned the eyes of the world, the summer toward the clan goose was capital of geneva, the gleaming palace of nations, the big for america, england, france, and russia met to seek an end to a decade of cold war heading, the soviet delegation were bri, mirabelle, gannon and communist party chief cruise jeff displaying russia's plan, policy of friendship. bruce, jeff caldwell gone back for camera. men though nominally outranked by the premier bruce just appeared very much. the loss. resonant eisenhower accompanied by secretary of state dollars over to exchange complete military information with the

russians. in a dramatic personal appeal of the plan was rejected. bible gannon and the president war time, friend general zak, albert lamb, britain's eden and french premier for a supporter. the daring american proposal it was in this whole of the united nations that the so called big full met. it was also here at the geneva conference, 1954 that a new chapter was set in motion for viet nam. and it's where the geneva caught on afghanistan was signed in 1988 the palace of nations in geneva houses the european headquarters of the un. how does the history of the united nations overlap with the hotel bo refers big

hotel owners, jak maya. wanted to know more about the u. s. first lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. i committed a proposal that the caching over to new york. it is the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights in a 1st met exclusively in new york on this then in december 1947, the committee came to geneva to approve the text with eleanor roosevelt as its chair. personally don't go to the oven the, the text. okay, that's right. that was the clear. we have the photograph that shows eleanor roosevelt medic holding the universal declaration of human rights and was bent on every secret tenant can assume kiska. he chose her,

his chair. if you don't allow requests, you know, i to mine, ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights about some of the mel delegates were not pleased at 1st diesel. totally gave us this on to my wife that because she was a woman. she was an activist. right ma'am? oh yes. is really cool. a mom? her mom, there were many different committees. swallows us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. it could open it. it was more of a representative job, a token gesture, in the name on the husband also helping but gosh, paula had her with her through law on the cms did. is it a facility law? it's affected of you cause about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issues suddenly became pressing a modern look and appear and appeared less on the line of guzman. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of careers masculine renew for it. and she was appointed the chair of the

commission on human rights. so hit wedlock. yeah. to clean it and as marlena will have them move. will you commit it? look me on that. some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time lettie. do renew it all. so for the girls limited on it, don't look at it if it's really and, and they did. he gave one delegate, i think from indonesia complained. he said human rights are not respected by the commission on human rights. because she made the delegates work until 7 pm with you on some of those. i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back then. because she stayed there whenever she visited immersion glucose. surely there were private meetings in the hotels. then as there are now no loan is attend. mm hm . and often if i can look, which was a yes, a lot happens at these informal meetings written. so

this suite at the barrage is the perfect place for such private or even secret meetings. guests can have their choice of several spacious rooms. but what happens when state guests arrive at the hotel who don't quite fit in with other top officials and the protection of confidentiality is potentially compromised. that's where tact is crucial to her, sir, like is on it. and also to professionally this, a few years ago, i received the former secretary general of the united nations, kofi anonymous of your and it just had the same time. we had a delegation here from a country that was not necessarily supposed to be directly associated with the secretary general. it's horrible. ashanti. hi. so the united nations protocol asked me to let the secretary general in through the back entrance. are you the more as if this actually thought the horror? of course i had the red carpet rolled out between the dumpsters. as i said to him,

i'm sorry to receive you amid the dumpsters. but he just said, don't worry. it happens all the time in new york in frequency, ceaseless requests while new york is about $12000.00 you in meetings are held each year in geneva much and what that means in terms of the number of guests to the city, the you in place, an important economic role for geneva as ever discretion says hoteliers shock my is essential. beside the palace of nations is apart. it's close to the public for security reasons. the so called cuts your net soon with its many international organizations, forms a city within the city. generated of

new vienna on this, you know, the bottom of salva fullness was his geneva became an international city in 1920 with the establishment of the league of nations. paul and new train station and airport were belt the miss various institutions and non governmental organizations emerged, such as pacifist or feminist associations at which to day form their own international ecosystem. the populace moved into it sometimes like the people here are living on 2 different planets within one city, key cookies. but in recent years and more effort has been made to integrate these organizations into the daily life of geneva, moore and taylor is of, in this, went on as an end on it. he couldn't. the united nations employs around $10000.00 people in geneva, but at, in the videos and international organizations. and that number increases at least 3 fault. the hotels naturally benefit from this dynamic. in the course, most of international politics and secret meetings, journalists prefer to meet their sources in hotels that are known for their

discretion fe, a safe places how depressed will be us is one such journalist born in york, she's an investigative reporter, covering environmental issues, corruption and money laundering, she reports for see an in and out 0 among other publications. the international fame of geneva comes from, i guess 2 elements that are sometimes in opposition with each other. on the one hand you have of course, the u. n. the world health organization, the international labor association, the international red cross of course that spaced here. on the other hand, that you have the banking sector, which is also very well known internationally. the problem is right

now with the stories of money laundering and corruption, ah, that's have been linked so closely to the banking sector. here they have brought the lime lights international limelight to themselves. unwillingly such scandals have damage to neighbors. reputation, can the city's good name be restored? i think geneva is really ah, trying to surpass some of the negative aspects of this image that projects internationally. there's

a certain hope that's with this new international exchange of data and in what concerns the banking sector, that any of us so well known for that all these stories that have sullied its past will pass. i think it's trying as much as possible to maintain geneva as an international center of negotiation of humanitarian issues. so that is where the hope lies. that's all that these bricks, conservative latch together and that that would be how people see geneva in the future. for decades. geneva has attracted not only enterprising reporters and series journalists,

but also paparazzi from all over the world. important meetings that taking place under the roof of the bo rubashaw all the time. hoteliers jeff, my and it's all about shielding and protecting simultaneously, remaining absolutely invisible when it comes to navigating political interests. financial ties and image problems. meyer is a seasoned expert clerk. older introducer, the hosted little more, the role of a hood to ye is to remain totally neutral. and we are, after all, in a political environment that is neutral, going to mix it on to political. but as far as the economy is concerned, it's different. we defend in open geneva genevas. i can also play a social role to do this. it needs prosperity, obviously not at all cost, but the city needs to be prosperous,

prosper the blue vash has also seen hard times. at the outbreak of the 2nd world war, the swiss hotel plunged into crisis. visitors stayed away. the pages at the guest book remained blank. clusters at their big it is already in switzerland was an isolated country. wedged between the blocks of the north and the south. the east and the west not progressing. it was on the border of the fries own, so people stopped visiting or from la proposal and the boulevard. like most hotels closed down for me. private film footage from august and september 19th. as she 9 shows, trips in paris and normandy, the start of world war 2. the camera also captured late, geneva,

seemingly untouched by the war that the swiss were not truly unscathed. the rebellion clifford. that was a very difficult time. my parents aunts, uncles, my grandparents lived outside the city and only occasionally came to air of hotel, opened the windows and check for any flooding from her sooner. so didn't period. of course, it was a time that shaped my parents and grandparents. m. me i play it. what after that, a new generation came with him. businesses reopened. and many new tourists came to discover geneva levies, i think was why they wanted a new life, a different life. we've heard. so geneva picked up quickly after the war. did my house happy more? when i go to

europe, printer jojo, i spent all my thursdays in this place when i was a teenager because my father received the wine deliveries on thursdays. wines from bergen ya or bordeaux. i used to help him open the crates. it said we tell you to my job was to use a ruler and make sure that the bottles were aligned perfectly does not even a 2 millimeter difference was allowed to be met. the dick are rational to him with a lot my father didn't allow the wine cellar manager to help himself directly from the wine racks, soccer louis earlier tories. if so, they come in the fuser shack garcia. it keeping a ticket sure that he can track had a card with the name of the wine, the origin, the vintage, the quantity, and the purchase price, t o hill. gov of what he wrote,

the purchase price backwards so that nobody else knew what he paid for them to connect with him. well, also to maintain an overview, he attached these cards in like i spent my childhood cutting them out, which he then placed on the rack engine or foster dick will be the won't do the whole cattle. good. we met our pleasure, lucas? yes. he was us in there are the most valuable bottles. what is that one? i mean, do you mean amazon e from 79? lou sundays enough. sundays. never let them from 1979. she said, what beautiful bottles do you know the oldest bottle we have taken use of one arm is all, it's not a wine but a con. yeah. said laughing. jump on a cognac d from 1820 lazoodo pulliam just missed that one. we still have a few bottles of it. my parents bought it at in auction a long time ago. tell don't li boulevard. sigma stole the,

the good wines come with a long history that the previous had some of the a or even his predecessor contributed towards like a temple of wine bottles lie here with their dust and history. the work of a summary is to continue the history, which goes hand in hand with that of the hotel bell julia listed at least 12 de la mitchell. no. i bring my knowledge and the wines that i like or discover. but i will always respect the tradition of the bordeaux and borg on the lines that boldly . bosh surely var just to the bottle do i hope these bottles will always remain here for the sake of legacy and future some of the year for the future. so he oh oh,

no, i did . oh, this is me. ah . ah. ethan is an establishment as carefully managed as the bull rivers. there are some things that a hotel owner simply cannot control or prevent. like what happened here just over 30 years ago. ah. this gemini journalist played a prominent role in the series of events. in october 1987, he discovered the full mistake premier of slash mc holstein va, bashful,

dead in the bath tub. sebastian canal photographed him. the image appeared in the magazine. sten provoking something of the scandal and gemini the school voss is the truth. lucy, john, all the interview. so the bo revised as an ideal place for interviews as follows. nissan shoots us, even if the hotels management doesn't always appreciate the political interviews are conducted on their premises on silicon utmost feel a history and you can create a good atmosphere today, especially in luxury hotels where the guest feels comfortable and can open up a business a hoses, food so how did the scandal happen? ah sebastian, now i had travelled from handled to geneva in the hope of conducting an interview

with the former jim est premier if a partial had been accused of organizing a smear campaign against a political opponent, the journalist was hoping to me. asher in the bar. yes, oh, bashful didn't appeal. so the journalist entities room the next day without permission. so the hug don't clue. the log on, and so my shoe often mccoy was dimly led to woodson, but there was a single shoe in the hallway under us. there was a corridor that led to the beds, and there were other things lying about and saw such as pajamas as some sweets. oscars not booked by john porcelain, was opened, surprisingly enough. open to a certain story that deals with suicide. and this was all along the documents i was interested in, were lying there on as if prepared for a journalist visit and t it's how would is it until i wasn't sure how i should document them. so my, so i took the papers to my photographer, do blobs, clothes, most of i had told them to wait outside the room and let me know when mister basha

returns schmiel austin. he was supposed to keep a lookout and warned me by my oscar. no seemed soon on my way out. i knocked on the bathroom door of the 2 of infinite. i opened the door and saw in the bathroom mirror. there was a lifeless body in the bath tub. saw and leaped was a cover of under licked though veneer claw here soon was gonna call. it was clear to me then that something terrible it happened. i lit up stan reporter found partial dead in his bathroom. it's in the to, to bassetti estimate on early reports of suspect. the politicians shot himself warden from your book. the journalist found them in the bath tub and his head above the water, apart from his shoes or a basho was fully clothed. sir, sunday cut rossetto her sunday shows. gary, if come on, that was 1987 and these things can happen. they can happen anywhere any time. all in a horse is yours. our role is to deal with this as

a public place where children are born, a place full of life for people are born here married here and they die here. all see money. that's life, and a hotel is about life and return sylvie. following the gym and politicians, death journalists and photographers camped out for weeks in front of the hotel entrance. inside the boulevard, swiss and german criminal investigators trying to determine whether was suicide, a murder, or a natural death. how did the hotel deal with the aftermath? with signature discretion? the room number 317 simply no longer exists. hello sir. here we go. 2 menus, with frogs ravioli, salmon lobster. so far, gar, now and 2 orders of venison. joy,

dominique a t is the head shift at blue rivers. like his predecessor, he has a mission star. the restaurant lou shibel t opened 50 years ago to the outside world. before then, it was exclusively for the hotel guests to products come from the lake in the mountains, both seasonal and region. is that really leisure cooperate? is it one leg of when you're young? you chase after the stars quite busy in the michelle and star city. that's just incredible for a chevy blazer bottle to be famous genius of you. but as you get older,

you realize that the most important thing is to please your guest tracy, to be attentive on killing the fair on. if you prioritize the customer lukia's, the stars will follow on their own. was peter bottled? did you learn that at the age of 50 cisco level a pete's a candle? for my interpreter at collier or me, a table has to feel friendly. that's important, or to learn to that other. it has to look beautiful and inviting to us as rice. you should feel at home to shoes. you wanted a table sat like this. invite you to sit down and have a meal. sit antennae, appetizer for 2 for the cobra. frog legs in

baton. deep fry to sift with garlic. milk, firm. speech sauce and fresh basil. it's a classic dish. here. sa city. when we jam black, these are the frogs who was a dish. i developed a good 15 years ago. i like, yeah, it's on the menu every day to the feel really many guests come for the frogs. similar are the burgers ready? yet? we even have fast food in a hotel. you have to do it all the by revenge opened more than a 150 years ago. how does it preserve tradition? it's still keep up with the times on the national,

divine counselor, assisted in that we're fortunate to have a very loyal clientele who have been coming here for many years 0 some older than in the level. of course, we strive to take care of these customers name as well as their children, full or even grandchildren for he want things done differently and all have differing demands fiano and didn't. it's on us to adapt to this. sanusi the in the said desa. the hotel manager de florist the head of reception. they all share the same philosophy. this house has a soul because they give it one. shanella shaw. see papa, ma'am. she'll godly leave out. a formal dodge generation has its own way of expressing itself, even if we all maintain the same fundamental values. my father, for example, was a man who enjoyed good food. he opened the house to gastronomy into a modern world,

which was a world of business metadata one year due to his imperial dude. when he took over the boulevard, he catered to a new generation that came to geneva for conferences and seminars. that had nothing to do with the fine society of the bell epoch. wilson young world, the crew is going to put it up. but i also had to further develop the house into filament shows on the more geneva connects with the world, the more it secures its future hoc that's obvious for, for her she has one of so how will the coming generations, the 5th of the 6th change things 40 years from now, remember, that's what i'd like to know, like embassy, jim. he national dog auto. some of the some sour with blue fash, each generation has had a hand in writing. the hotels history can be politics to celebrity encounters the owners have navigated every twist. and turn with signatures with discretion. and

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