history the year was 1947 and the former 1st lady stayed in the suite while drafting a major paper for the united nations. the she, those are you except yellow, who the bitterness kiefer 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 addition, i will end of course, eleanor roosevelt, an unforgettable personality for geneva, learn who 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 enough, kiara. laborious is the fundamental document of the united nations, like a guiding star selda came awfully motel 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, was capital of geneva, the gleaming palace of nations. the big for america, england, france on 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 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. gov at la britain's eden and french premier for support of 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 in 1954 that a new chapter was set in motion for viet nam. and it's where the geneva courts 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 revise it?

how shall owner jack maya wants to know more about the us 1st lady eleanor roosevelt stay in his family's hotel. he has an appointment with the head archivist of the united nations library. i committed to groversville that the caching will fit it in new york. it is the committee to prepare the declaration of human rights in the 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 chairperson. he don't go to the ovens, it fixed. okay, that's right. that was the clear. we have the photograph that shows eleanor roosevelt and holding the universal declaration of human rights and was bent on every secret. santa dickerson kiska, who chose her as chair president, and

a pretty no i to mine. ah, you as president harry truman asked her to help formulate the declaration of human rights. a day of 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 ma'am? oh, yes, israel michael or it was there were many different committees swallowed us president harry truman gave her a job on a committee dealing with social issues. they had a good opposite. it was more of a representative job, a token gesture in the denay, no nose vent, also helping but gosh, paula had her with a husband who were not under committed at the facility law. it's affected of you because about with influx of refugees after world war 2, social issues suddenly became pressing a modern look. an appeal it appeared less. oh no. one of you guys moved. okay. eleanor roosevelt took on the task with a lot of teresa marquis lanier for that. and she was appointed the chair of the

commission on human rights. so i'd love to clean it as more, le let's have them move. you can take a look recently some commission members complained about the pace, but she was determined to finish within the given time, ready to renew its own. so for the girls limited on it, don't know, kind of italy and, and the delegate 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 piano with or some of her. i'd like to know what happened at the boulevard back then, because she stayed there whenever she visited mirage in google. surely there were private meetings in the hotels. then as there are now learned is a take me visit him and asked him if i come up, which was a yes, a lot happens at these informal meetings, regression this suite at the bow revise 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. dickerson like his on the law. so traditional holiness, 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 with us on the high. 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 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 is essential. beside the palace of nations is a part that is close to the public for security reasons. the so called cut she and that soon with its many international organizations, forms the city within the city generated of new vienna on this, you know about immune of silva,

coolness or to the geneva, became an international city in 1920 with the establishment of the league of nations 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 huge into it sometimes like the people here are living on 2 different planets within one city goodies. but in recent years and more effort has been made to integrate these organizations into the daily life of geneva, moore antigua is of any this with an as an end on it, which again 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 are known for their

discretion. they a safe places how depressed will be us is one such journalist born in new york, she's an investigative reporter, covering environmental issues, corruption and money laundering. she reports the scene 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 neighbor's 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 it 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 latched 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 packer antsy from all over the world. important meetings taking place under the roof of the boulevard all the time for hotel his jack maya, it's all about shielding and protecting while 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 stapleton, mo, the role of a hood to yay, 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 costs, but the city meets 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. clusters at their bigger disorder in switzerland was an isolated country. wedged between the blocks of the north and the south and the east and the west. though progressive, 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. 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, but the swiss were not truly unscathed. very quickly, 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 with her sooner. so didn't go. of course, it was a time that shaped my parents and grandparents. m. 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 no. so geneva picked up quickly after the war. the marcia happy more could i go

to european than usual. 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 crate, 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 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 can re loser shack garcia. it did a key 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 to connect with him. but also 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 and or foster dick will be won't do the whole cattle good. we met our placeholder cuz yeah, he was us in the hotel on the most valuable bottles. what is that one? i mean, do you mean amazon e from 79? low, so sandy snuff, sound isn't f o. let them from 979. she said, what beautiful bottles do you know the oldest bottle we have taken use of. oh no, i'm is on. it's not a wine, but a con. yeah. said laughing. jump on a cognac d from 18. 20 lazoodo polian 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. she missed all the good wines.

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 up gap. haley stalled the missile. no, i bring my knowledge and the winds 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 low. i hope these bottles will always remain here. for the sake of legacy and future some of the year for the future. so oh no,

i should. oh oh, with oh. even in an establishment as carefully managed as the bull revise. 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 move

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 not. who's on lucy? john, all the interview. so the bull revised as an ideal place for interview soon 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 traveled 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 meet ashley in the bomb. yeah, oh, bashful didn't appeal. so the journalist entities room the next day without permission. so the hug 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. alondo saw there was a corridor that led to the bearings, and there were other things lying about and saw such as pajamas of some sweets. oscars not booked by john paul soften, 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 in warn me. but also, you know, seemed sim 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 tub. saw and leaped was a couple of under licked. though vanya claw here soon was gonna call. it was clear to me then that something terrible it happened. i miss stan reporter found partial dead in his bathroom in the to to bassetti estimate or early reports suspect the politician shot himself warden from your book, the journalist. amount him in the bath tub and his head above the water. apart from his shoes, i basha 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. they're not 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 mother, that's life and a hotel is about live and return sylvie. following the gym and politicians, death journalists and photographers camped out for weeks in front of the hotel entrance. inside the boat, osh, swiss and german criminal investigators trying to determine whether 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. so far, gar, now and 2 orders of venison. joy,

dominique a t is the head shift. it blue rivers, like his predecessor, he has a mission star. the restaurant lou shibel, tain'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 with seasonal and regional debris. the provisional cooperate is it? well they go when you're young, you chase after the stars point here, the michelle and star city, that's just incredible. for a chevy present, brought out 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 fair on. if you prioritize the customer, lukea of the stars will follow on their own was a bit of bottled that you learned that at the age of 50 cisco level and be taken for my interpreter at call yell 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 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 in fresh basil. it's a classic dish. here it's acidic, only jam black girl. these are the frogs herself say a dish. i developed a good 15 years ago. i like, yeah, it's on the menu every day to the feel really you many guests come for the frogs. zavala 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 still keep up with the times on the national devouring account.

this is she then. and we're fortunate to have a very loyal clientele who have been coming here for many years this year, 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 who want things done differently and all have differing demands and famel and didn't. it's on us to adapt to this sanusi doing this at desa. the hotel manager, da, 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 better dotted one year due to his imperial dirt. 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. what a celebrity on the world the crew is going to put it up. but i also had to further develop the house. if you do film 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 jimenez, short ball can't all. some of us on sour. mm. at boulevard. each generation has had a hand in writing the hotels history, from politics to celebrity encounters the owners of navigated every twist and turn with signatures with discretion. and they're ready to great. what chapter comes

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