Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1941 — Page 8

nly a Small Guard and Skeleton Staffs Remain at League of Nations Building for Which Germany's Gifts Were the Locks and ‘Keys.

By DAVID M. NICHOL eT Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago’ Daily News, Ine.

GENEVA (By Clipper).—Two years after the peace it ‘was meant to preserve had shattered, the League of Nations #

has an external air today of former grandeur like a Missis-

| sini River plantation or the temple of a long since vanished Ml

: “Some 90 persons, counting the lone gsr at the high wire fence, the skeleton maintenance crews who struggle hopelessly with the once im- than that the German firms should

"| ers-of interferring with: workers’ ef-

country should supply some items] for the palace. What further irony {

LABOR ROW BESETS [oni int en FORD SERVICE UNIT fied a complaint wit ts Detrot|

. DETROIT, Nov, 21. (U.. P)).—The| régional. offices of. the National La- |. Ford Motor Co. “service depart- bor Relations: Board, charging the]

ment,” long accused b union leady men for union activity.

= Tocar made of ‘the ‘skins Film e company. had fired: eight “service” |s, of farm ade | domestic animals} cl agricultt xposition | that

‘The union already has enlisted op: -|forts to join labor organizations, is! 390 of the 600 ‘plant protection em- ral i is abd cats were among beset with labor troubles of its own.|ployees at the Rouge plant, accord- | the contributors. Mole - pelts also

Daniel R. Foley; attorney for:the|ing to Clyde Williams, an organizer w re used, Na fos x | The OF

(GIA; Italy, ‘Nov. Pr (w.

[had accepted the en paalso [tional honorary chairmanshi 5

~ peccable gardens,.and all that have installed the locks and keys, gemains here of the league's Sock currently the most used fixtures! Bl SY SIL 25 of the oa They work excellently. Or, that sprawling: build- Italy should nave provided the ng is closed. gleaming metal office doors which ‘\ Blackout cur- suffer a congential flaw. “They _ tains are plas- ! [never have worked properly,” admits tered with stick- the guard. i | ers Sgsin ne Dead Indicates the Living u : si k. i inc ace and : | Some of the committee rooms were . other botanical decorated by Switzerland which now intruders outdis- treats the league with the most Jance Tid 1a official. correctness and. reserve for ; Ee and where fear of clouding its cherished neuhe rolltng NES BR |trality in the eyes of its neighbors mounds 5190s David Nichol [who find .the league anything. but wn to 8 , So wheat has been cut. The|t@steful. But one of the wall panels rose beds show need, for care. [is strickingly prophetic: The indict- “* Inside the echoing corridors and|ment of the living by a dead soldier ‘the empty rooms are even greatet|laid out in *his white shroud, a ironies, indications of the desire hugury which ‘ few now ever enjoy men had for peace and the haste|even posthumously. © with which they pluriged into war. e last eerie touch is supplied | The league building was scarcely . completed before the collapse of international organization) had occurred. Mothproofing Evident .' Now. the deep and beautifully blue Belgian carpet on the floor of the assembly hall smells of mothproofing. Four great murals, the heavy bronze doors and two reclining “Pronze figures before the speaker's dais were the gift of France—which 1as now served notice of its withawal. The murals’ sgbjects are edicated, respectively, to the

as| the visitor emerges into the unseasonally ' hot sun of fall to find the surroundings perfectly still and without a trace of movement until a shattering scream rolls through the courtyards, It might | have been almost anything. The slightest imagination would make of it la banshee, or the tortured ghost of all the world’s peoples... ctually, it was one of- the half dozen peacocks which still roam the grounds, omens of ill luck ever since their arrival to the stat workers in the secretariat. .

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