LEAGUE RIDICULED
BY GENEVA HUMORISTS. EFFIGY OF JOHN BULL. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Geneva, May 11. Prior to the League Council meeting a huge cardboard effigy of John Bull, believed to have been constructed by local humorists, was conveyed in a float past the League building, towing a coffin. The effigy’s stomach represented the world, the Italian flag flew from the waistcoat pocket, and a Swiss flag flew from the mouth.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4844, 12 May 1936, Page 5
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