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Ramon de Franch of the Argentine newspaper, “derso and kelen were accredited
La Prensa.
journalists and there’s a hint of
Besides Tabouis, three other women are bias in their depiction, top left,
depicted; on the left stair, the erect figure
wearing a helmet is Austrian politician, Princess of the international press as the
Fanny Starhemberg; near the bottom of the cavalry riding to defend freedom
right stair, playing a lyre, is Romanian delegate
and poet, Elena Văcărescu; and, at the bottom of speech.”
of the mural, with a prominent feathered hat, is
Alexandra Kollontai, the pioneer Soviet woman
diplomat.

The key figure competing for the microphone is
Haile Selassie, at the top of the right stair. Speech
in hand, he is being thrust forward by Gaston Saavedra Lamas, symbolically armed only with
Jèze, his legal advisor. They are a step ahead of a legal scroll. Below him are French Foreign
the spokesman of the Italian delegation, Baron Minister Yvon Delbos; Austrian Chancellor Kurt
Aloisi, who is followed by Spanish diplomat, Schuschnigg; and, steadying the ladder, Éamon
Salvador de Madariaga, the ‘conscience of the de Valera, Ireland’s First Minister.
League’. Next, with a red cape, is Léon Blum,
French Prime Minister during the crisis, and Left of this ladder, being served wine by Kollontai,
Paul Boncour, France’s Permanent Delegate; is Raoul Dandurand, who represented Canada
behind them is Ramsay Macdonald, UK Premier at the League. Right of it are Belgian League
during the lead up to the crisis; the Belgian, Paul delegate, Emile Vandervelde and Armindo
van Zeeland, who was in the chair during Lux’s Rodrigues Monteiro, the Portuguese Foreign
suicide; French Councillor of State, Jules Gautier Minister.
with flowing white locks; and Tevfik Rüştü Aras,
Turkey’s Foreign Minister. There is also a disorganised, ridiculed effort to
scale the wall by rope. Leading are two Romanians,
Near the top of the left stair, Joseph Goebbels, Foreign Minister Ion Antonescu and, clinging
propaganda minister of the Third Reich, is on his right, Permanent Representative, Nicolae
stretching out to seize the microphone first, but Titulescu. Underneath is Pierre Laval, the French
is held back by Maxim Litvinov, USSR diplomat Premier who was forced to resign after a secret
at the League (in red). On the stair, from above
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and Julio Álvarez del Vayo, Foreign Minister of
League Affairs; Robert Cecil, tireless British the Spanish Republic during the Civil War.
Compact. Powerful. Smart. supporter of the League; India’s delegate, the
Aga Khan; kneeling in purple garb, Józef Beck, Chief Swiss Delegate, Giuseppe Motta (the cross
Poland’s Foreign Minister; Mexican diplomat obliterated), leads a group carrying another
Francisco Castillo Nájera, previously Assembly ladder, comprising the bald Dutch Minister
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The lone figure on horseback at the top right
On the central ladder, leading l’escalade, is is League Secretary General, Joseph Avenol,
Argentinian human rights lawyer, Carlos holding a dove.

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