LEAGUE PALACE MYSTERY
FOUNDATION STONE MISSING The very foundations of the League of Nations have been knocked away. Or, if they have not been knocked away, they have at least sunk into oblivion, says the correspondent of the Morning Post. Strangely enough, neither the Disarmament Conference, nor Germany, nor Japan is responsible for this state of affairs. It is merely that the foundation stone of the new League Palace, laid with pomp arid ceremony by the delegate of Panama five years ago, has disappeared. The architects have looked for it, foremen and workmen engaged on the construction work have searched diligently for it, but no trace of it can be found. One theory is that the stone has sunk into a slough of despond beneath the preponderance of the great edifice that
surmounts it. Another is more serious. It is that the League has gone " off gold," and that the gold coins buried beneath the stone for the sake of jmsteritv have been utilised to fill the deficit caused by those States, including Panama, which are in arrears with their contributions to the expenses of the League.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21804, 19 May 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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187LEAGUE PALACE MYSTERY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21804, 19 May 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)
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