lady stage in the sweet while drafting a major paper for the united nations. there she, those are your exceptional l. who the bernacki for romando. 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. okay, hot nascar, i believe this is the fundamental document of the united nations, like a guiding star document for them all to all dirty national genie is, is he really to all the child, you know, can cooper the cities, hotels in the united nation. so the very special relationship during state visits,

hotel serve as the link between backroom politics and official announcements. it's the point between private conversations and will 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 goes west capitol of geneva, the gleaming palace of nations, the big for america, england, france on russia, meant 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 rushes plan, policy of friendship. bruce, jeff caldwell gun and back for cam. roman. though nominally outranked by the premier bruce just appeared very much. the boss, president eisenhower, accompanied by secretary of state dollars over to exchange complete military information with the russians in a dramatic personal appeal for the plan was rejected. bible gannon and the

president's war time. friend general zak. all butler britons eden and french premier for support of the daring american proposal to was in this whole of the united nations that the so called big full met. it was also here at the geneva conference in 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 refresh? good. how shall owner jack maya wants 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 excuse the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights cylinder 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 it's chair, personally don't good to be of in the the text. okay. that's right. that was the clear. we have the photograph that shows eleanor roosevelt and then holding the universal declaration of human rights and was bent on every secret santa dekaiser 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. it is all totally game, isn't there something? what was that? because she was a woman. she was an activist. right. manuel. lou yes is rouel. i'm a mom. her mom and there were many different committees. swallows us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. it grew up with it. it was more of a representative job, a token gesture in the name on those went also helping but gosh, paula and hope was on her through the law on the cms did. is it a facility law? it comforted of you because about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issue suddenly became pressing a modern look and appeared appeared little knowing of jasmine. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of careers masculine renew for that. and she was appointed the chair of the commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean again as marlena

with the move you can tear a local me on that. some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time. ready to renew it all. so for the girls limited in on it, don't. okay. if it 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 her, i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back them, because she stayed there whenever she visited immersion. google, surely there were private meetings in the hotels then as there are now learned, had sent me visit him and asked him if i come up, which was a yes, a lot happens at these informal meetings, rigans, 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. decor, sir. like as an if the law sal traditional is a few years ago i received the former secretary general of the united nations, kofi anonymous, of your, in did a guest at the same time. we had a delegation here from a country that was not necessarily supposed to be directly associated with the secretary general at hall ashanti high. so the united nations protocol asked me to let the secretary general in through the back entrance. are you the more jeffrey saltier lit up he, hoosier, 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, preposterously says lucas with all new york, you're about 12000. you in meetings are held each year in geneva mentioned 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 jack, my aunt is essential beside the palace of nations is apart. it's close to the public for security reasons. the 2nd cuts your net soon with its many international organizations, forms a city within the city generated of new vena on this. you know, the bottom miller silva coolness to the geneva became an international city in 1920

with the establishment of the league of nations. oh, and new train station and airport were belt to this 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 degree is already this, went on as an end on it, which in the united nations employs around 10000 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 a note for their discretion. fe a safe places pound

depressed will be us, is one such journalist, born in your she's an investigative reporter, covering environmental issues, corruption and money laundering. she reports for cnn and ashes era, 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, you have the banking sector, which is also very well known internationally. the problem is right now with the had 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 cities 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 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 serious journalists, but also paparazzi from all over the world. important

meetings that taking place under the roof of the bo rubashaw all the time for hoteliers, jack, my aunt, it's all about shielding and protecting all simultaneously remaining absolutely invisible when it comes to navigating political interests, financial ties, and image problems. maya is a seasoned expert clerk, older producer da da, 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, that can also play a social role to do this. it needs prosperity, obviously not at all costs, 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 that the guest book remained blank, close reset therapy. katie's order in switzerland was an isolated country. wedged between the blocks of the north and the south and the east and the west progress, it was on the border of the free zone. so people stopped visiting off criminal proposals and the bully raj, like most hotels, closed down for me. private film footage from august and september 19th. 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. very little. that was a very difficult time with my parents, aunts, uncles, my grandparents lived outside the city and only occasionally came to era hotel, opened the windows and check for any flooding with her sooner. so didn't go. of course, it was the time that shaped my parents and grandparents, liam me. i'll tell you what. after that, a new generation came with him up, 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, the marcia happy more. could i go

to europe? cannon unusual. i spent all my thursdays in this place when i was a teenager because my father received the wind deliveries on thursdays winds from bog, anya, 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 decor, hoshal twin would handle a tut. my father didn't allow the wine cellar manager to help himself directly from the wine racks soccer lea, earlier toys he was. i think i'm in the fuser shack garcia. it, it keep picking 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 until gov of what he wrote, the purchase price backwards so that nobody else knew what he paid for them of. we

couldn't love it. and when i asked her to maintain an overview, he attached these cards. mm hm. like i spent my childhood cutting them out, which he then placed on the rack engine or force at the computer won't do the whole cattle. good. we met our pleasure. lucas. yeah. he was in there on the most valuable bottles. what is that one? i mean, do you mean amazon e from 79? lou sundays. enough. sound is enough. huh. let them from 979. they can, they was he said, what beautiful bottles do you know the oldest bottle we have taken reserve on our missile. 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 for a long li boulevard. she installed the, the good winds, come with

a long history that the previous had some of the a, or even his predecessor contributed towards the like a temple of wine. the bottles lie here with their dust and history. while the work of a summary is to continue the history, which goes hand in hand with that of the hotel bell, julia started at least to 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 level do i hope these bottles will always remain here for the sake of legacy and future some of the year for the future. so hi this, you know, i

just, oh with ah, even in an establishment as carefully managed as the bull revised. there are some things that a hotel owner simply cannot control or prevent like, what happened here just over 30 years ago. ah, this chem and journalist played a prominent role in the series of events. in october 1987, he discovered the former state premier of slash mc holstein of a bashful debt 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. a lucy john, all the interview. so the bo revised as an ideal place for interviews seemed as follows. nissan shoots us, even if the hotels management doesn't always appreciate the political interviews are conducted on their premises. one's in a good atmosphere. the history in 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 traveled from handled to geneva in the hope of conducting an interview with the former jim state 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 bomb. yeah, oh, national didn't appeal. so the journalist entities room the next day without commission. so hold don't go to log on on some, a shoe of news. 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 bearings, and there were other things lying about and saw such as pajamas as of 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 these until i wasn't sure how i should document them. so my so i took the papers to my photographer, do blobs, clothes. no. so they had told them to wait outside the room and let me know when mr . bosher returns schmiel austin. he was supposed to keep a lookout and warn me by my oscar. you know, some, some on my way out,

i knocked on the bathroom door of the, to the infinite. i opened the door and saw in the bathroom mirror. there was a lifeless body in the bath, tulsa and leapt was a problem of on the leaked though vondik law he is in was gonna call. he was clear to me then that something terrible it happened. i miss stan reporter found partial dead in his bathroom. it's in the to, to bassetti estimate, early reports suspect the politician shot himself warden from the 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 of come on. that was 1987. and these things can happen. they can happen anywhere any time. all in that horse is just 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 live and returned salary. following the gym and politicians, death journalists and photographers camped out for weeks in front of the hotel entrance. inside the border, vash swiss and gem and criminal investigators trying to determine whether it was suicide and 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, soul fargo, and 2 orders of venison. joy,

dominique, a t is the head chef a 2 rivers. like his predecessor, he has a mission star. the restaurant lou shibel tay opened 50 years ago to the outside world before then it was exclusively for the hotel guests. the products come from the lake and the mountains, both seasonal and regional and is that really leisure of cooperate? is it? well, think of when you're young, you chase after the stars quite busy in the michelle and star city, that's just incredible for a chef in freezer bottle to be famous, genius and jill. but as you get older, you realize that the most important thing is to please your guest tracy,

to be attentive on killing the feel on. if you prioritize the customer, lukea of the stars will follow on their own. was a bit of bottled. did you learn that at the age of 56 will have home a be taken? for my interpreter at calia or me, a table has to feel friendly. that's important to her on that to learn to that other. it has to look beautiful and inviting to us as rice you should feel at home to to is you wanted a table sat like this. invite you to sit down and have a meal. sit a denise appetizer for 2 for the career

frog legs in baton. deep fry to sift with garlic. milk, firm, speech sauce and fresh basil. it's a classic dish. here it's acidic, only jam black. these are the frogs herself a dish. i developed a good 15 years ago. i like, yeah, it's on the menu every day. but feel really many guests come for the frogs. zebra. are the burgers ready? yet? we even have fast food in a hotel, you have to do it all. to buy revise opened more than a 150 years ago. how does it preserve tradition? it still keep up with the times when the nationals divine count

taylor us is she then in that we're fortunate to have a very loyal clientele who've been coming here for many years this year. some older that in the level, of course we strive to take care of these customers name as well as their children, full or even grandchildren. awful. he want things done differently and all have differing demands in the family 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 shot janelle shaw see pauper lim. she'll gladly 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 and to a modern world, which was a world of business metadata one year due to his imperial dirt. when he took over

the bully of ash 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 again, i will have the crew is going to put it up, but i also had to further develop the house. if you do filming shows on the more geneva connects with the world, the more it secures its future soccer. that's obvious. 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 ball council. some of us on the sour with boulevard. each generation has had a hand in writing the hotels history. from be politics to celebrity encounters the owners, have navigated every twist and turn with signatures swiss discretion. and they're ready to great. what chapter comes next?

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