New York, June 26.
The crest, name and flag of Southern Rhodesia were removed from the Victoria Falls exhibit at the New York World's Fair on cabled instructions from the Rhodesian Government, "because the exhibit is surrounded by depraved and obscene" shows, it was announced here today.
The exhibit, in which 60,000 gal-lens of water a minute plunge over a 22-foot-high scale model of Victoria Falls, is situated in the amusement sector of the Fair near the "Congress of Beauty," "Amazons," "Cuban Crystal Palace" and other vaudeville shows.
The Rhodesian exhibit was "placed in the amusement area against my better judgement and I endeavoured to obtain a site more in keeping with the Government's dignity but yielded to assurances that the area would be restricted to high-class shows," Mr. Norman Yule, World's Fair Commissioner declared—United Press,
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