Switzerland fired a public relations agency it had hired to improve the country’s image in the wake of charges that it hoarded the wealth of Holocaust victims. The firing of Ruder Finn USA came after Swiss officials learned that the Israel branch of the agency was working for the World Jewish Restitution Organization, one of Switzerland’s staunchest critics.
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