Book Jacket Portraying WWII Nazi Ties Upsets Swiss

A new book by a Clinton administration official who led negotiations with Switzerland, Germany, France and Austria to “get nearly $8 billion in reparations for art, unpaid insurance policies and confiscated bank accounts taken from Jews during World War II” is angering the Swiss. The objections are not so much about the content, as the cover, which “has a swastika made of gold ingots spread over the red Swiss national flag.” But author Stuart E. Eizenstat and his publisher say the design “accurately reflects what he learned during the negotiations in the late 1990s.”