Here is the Exhibition. Of the various Great Powers France
does not really figure, because the whole affair is hers. She has no special national pavilion. Britain, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States and Japan have. And for general impressiveness Russia and Germany dominate every- thing, with Italy a good third. Great Britain has a nice, decent, unpretentious exhibit; the United States' is not much more than a collection of photographs, and Japan is so com- pletely hidden away in a corner that most people never know it is there. As you enter the Exhibition at its main gate at the Trocadero, with the whole marvellous vista spread before you, two objects catch the eye, and (except for the Eiffel Tower) two only—the great twin figures of the man with the hammer and the woman with the sickle glinting in the sun on the roof of the Russian pavilion, and the grim brooding eagle on the roof of the German, exactly opposite. Inside each pavilion is the kind of exhibit the two greatest propaganda States in Europe might be expected to turn out.
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