Konferenz von Évian
Early in 1934 he moved to the "Wiener Morgen" (Vienna Morning News). From 1935-39 he was a Foreign Correspondent for the "Prager Tagblatt" (Prague Daily News), stationed mostly at Geneva, covering the League of Nations and was present at the Évian Conference in 1938. Habe described the course of the Conference in his novel "The Mission" (1965). The focal point of the novel is the infamous offer made by the German government, and transmitted to the Conference by Neumann von Héthárs, to sell the Austrian Jews to foreign countries at a price of $250 per capita, and the Conference delegates' refusal to accept. At this time Habe was married to his second wife, Erika Levy, heiress of the Tungsram light bulb company.