21 JANUARY 1928, Page 13

The Swiss Government gave the valuable site, the Germans a

stained glass window overlooking the main stairway, the French Cohen as tapestry for the room where the Governing Body holds its sessions, Japan two magnificent cloisonné vases, Greece a gorgeous carpet : I must cut short this cata- logue with a brief reference to the Serbian splendour of one director's room, which was furnished in heavily carved Croatian oak, the vast office table being supported by twisted pillars of Byzantine design, while an episcopal throne towered above that, gentleman's head. It was a remarkable room, reminiscent perhaps of the surroundings in which some subtlety Of dogma vvas discussed long ago, now attuned to the telephone and card-index.

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