The Archive · 1927

New Building for League

Geneva, Sept. 26.

The Assembly of the League today adopted the report presented by the Right Hon. Hilton Young in favour of restricting the selection of plans for the new buildings of {the League of Nations to the nine frst awards. Dr. Nansen, M. Lou-Jdon, the Netherlands delegate, and Dr." Pienaar, representing South Africa, voted against the report. They favoured selection from the 27 plans which have been submitted by: competing architects.

The maximum cost of the build-

Ings is to be Gold Frs. 19,500,000.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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