NOISE DROWNS THE DELIBERATIONS OF LEAGUE AT GENEVA.
(Special to the “Star.”) GENEVA, September 1. Geneva, like other places, is a city of much noise. Great numbers of tourists now visit the buildings of the League of Nations here and wander about its empty halls. It is possible in a day to count as many as 2000 people, including infants, visiting the buildings. Unfortunately these visitors are far from/quiet. To-day a climax was reached. During the International Conference for the Control of the Manufacture of Arms it was discovered that the windows opening on to the gardens had been invaded by 250 voung girls whose prattling cut like a knife across the speech of the French delegate, M. Jouhaux, in spite of his “ loud-speaker ” voice. At the same moment an aeronautical expert from Rome who had been attending the meeting executed “stunts,” a few feet above the League building. It was impossible td hear a word of the discussion, and the deliberations were temporarily suspended.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18635, 12 December 1928, Page 11
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