Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular HappeningsMacaulay, Rose
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Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings
Macaulay, Rose
Detective and mystery stories; Geneva (Switzerland) -- Fiction
"All the sittings of the sub-committees would be in private, as
the publicity which had been demanded by one of the delegates
from Central Africa would vitiate, in this case, the
effectiveness of the inquiry.
"Before the sub-committees separated, several members addressed
the committee. M. Gomez (Panama) proposed that special
attention should be given to the fact that Geneva at all times,
but particularly during the sessions of the Assembly, was a
centre of pestilential societies, among whom were to be found
in large numbers Socialists, Bolshevists, Freemasons, and Jews.
In his opinion, the headquarters of all these societies should
be raided. Above all, it should be remembered that the
delegates were all brothers in friendship, and as such were
above the suspicion of any but the basest minds.
"M. Chapelle (France) said this was indeed true of the
delegates, but that it would be a mistake if the committee
should not keep its mind open to all possibilities, and it must
be remembered that some of the nations most recently admitted
to the League had bands of their fellow-countrymen in Geneva,
who were undoubtedly sore in spirit over recent economic and
political decisions, and might (without, well understood, the
sanction of their delegates) have been guilty of this attack on
the personnel of the League by way of revenge.
"Signor Nelli (Italy) strongly deprecated the suggestion of M.
Chapelle as unworthy of the spirit of fraternity between
nations which should animate members of the League.
"After some further discussion of Item 5 of the agenda, it was
agreed to leave it to the sub-committee appointed to consider
it, and the committee then broke up into five sub-committees."
The Journal, always discreet, sheltered under the words "further
discussion of Item 5" a good deal of consideration of various
suspicions based on reason and common sense. Most members of the
committee, in fact, had their suggestions to make; in committee people
always felt they could speak more freely than in the Assembly, and did
so. Bolshevist refugees, bands of marauding Poles disbanded from
General Zeligowski's army, Sinn Feiners, Orangemen, Albanians, Turks,
unprotected Armenians, Jugo-Slavs, women-traffickers, opium merchants,
Greeks, Zionists, emissaries from Frau Krupp, Mormons, Americans,
Indians, and hired assassins from _l'Intransigeant_ and the _Morning
Post_--all these had their accusers. Finally Mr. Macdermott (Ulster)
said he would like to point out what might not be generally known,
that there was a very widespread Catholic society of dubious morals
and indomitable fanaticism, which undoubtedly had established a branch
in Geneva for the Assembly, and much might be attributable to this.
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