Swiss get over guilt

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[The planned gold sale is about 1/2 over so the fund is there.  It's what to
do with the money from the gold sales that was in question.]

WORLD NEWS: Swiss reject gold aid fund
By William Hall
Financial Times; Sep 23, 2002

Switzerland electorate narrowly rejected a government-backed plan to use
some of the country's gold reserves to set up a humanitarian fund.

The Swiss government proposed forming the Solidarity Foundation in 1997
after being criticised for their behaviour during the second world war.

Switzerland's reputation took a battering after it was revealed that its
banks had grown rich from the deposits of Holocaust victims, and a neutral
Switzerland had turned back thousands of Jewish refugees and profited from
selling armaments to both sides. William Hall, Zurich