The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-22

eueraCl0n VIII take It over. League in 1920 the need for in- creased accommodation became more evident.
 Cost Exceeds $S,OO0,OOO
 The sum set aside for the new buildings (approved by the As- sembly in 1932) amounted to 25,- 577,170 Swiss francs ($8,120,O00).
 The new palace of the League consists of @ series of five-story, white. limestone buildings, linked together, including the Secreta- riat, the Council block, the Com mittee rooms, Assembly Hall, and Library. The Secretariat is horshoe snapped building with unequal wings. The Council block is joined on one side to the Secre- tariat and on the other side, by the left Committee Wing, to the Assembly Hall. The Library is linked to the Assembly Hall by the right Committee Wing.
 In the plans, the Council Wing, the Committee Rooms, the As- sembly Hall and the Library are grouped around & rectangular court of honor which will be ter- raced on two levels. No attempt has been made at ornarnentatioi1 as the architects are relying for their effects upon the imposing proportions of the several build- ings. The total length of the rro,,,, is about onn fat %ha orao about 10000 square yards, and in size they will almost equal the vast group of the Palace of Ver- sailles.
 Assembly Hall Seats 1900
 The Assembly Hall will accom- modate 600 delegates, experts and secretaries, have seats for 500 working journalists, and provide about 800 seats for the public, while the acoustics are the last word in modern science.
 Many adornments for the new buildings have been donated by countries and individuals. AL though the United States is not @ member 1t is represented by the library, @ donation of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation has given $25,- 900 for the monumental bronze doors for the Assembly Hall, and Edward A. Filene, Boston mer- chant, has donated the telephonic communication apparatus for the Assembly Hall. Some of the other donations are:
 New Zealand is panelling one room in native wood, South Africa another. Holland is giving the decorations and furnishings of the Secretary Generals office. India has sent a set of furniture for the office of the President of the As- sembly. sweden is providing furniture for the room of the President of the Council, and Persia has given some motive car- pets.
 Luxemburg Donates Gates
 Greece has donated 8 bronze reproduction of an antique Greek statue. Bolivia, Columbia, Pana- ma, Peru and Venezuela combined to present 0 bronze tablet bearing an inscription from speeches of the great South American patriot, Simon Bolivar. Little Luxemburg is giving wrought iron gates for the entrance way. Australia has sent a presidential table and fur- fliture.
 Materials from GO countries are embodied in the buildings, the ex- terior being maily of Swiss and Frenc h limestone and Italian granite construction.
 All the buildings are heated by hot water, Q product of German engineering, while beautiful dec- oratice effect is given to the inte- rior archways and sixty staircases by multi-colored Italian marble.
 Five Architects Represented
 The design of the buildings is the work of five famous European architects: H. P. Neont, who won the Grand Prix of Rome, Inspec- tor General of French national palaces and architect of the Sor- bonne in Paris; M. Broggi, of Rome; M. Flegenheiiner, of Gee neva; M. Lefevre, also, an Inspec- tor General of French national palaces, and M. vago, of Budapest.
 Although the materials and fur nishings of the new League palace come from every corner of the globe. the builders have harmon. ized them all into Q balanced whole, giving an impression of modernistic simplicity and con- venience with Q sense of rugged beauty.
 Landscape architects are com- pleting driveways, parking spaces and terraces, and when finished this sapphire in an emerald set- ting" will undoubtedly be one of the show places of Europe.