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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, April 3, 1948

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 03, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                In s next move. Photographs by Rene Heller in september delegates from fifty seven nations will Convene in one of Paris newest palaces to the management of Paris palais de Chaillot next september s temporary tenants will present a multitude of new problems. They won t be insurmountable by any Means the management insists. But when the United nations moves in for its 1948 meeting it will demand a Good Many facilities that were never needed by the radio City rockette the Congress of magicians or any of the hundreds of other groups who have performed there the palais Maze of Long Halls and High be hinged rooms is the youngest Palace in Paris though As the prize exhibit in the Jardin do Trocadero it replaced a Castle which had been holding Paris Art exhibitions and concerts for nine centuries. Originally according to in Secretary general Trygve lie the general Assembly was to temporarily move to Europe to bring members physically closer to problems of the War wounded countries. Palais officials Hope delegates will see these problems beyond the View of the Jardin the Seine and the Eiffel Tower which their new Home affords. A i bbb United nations delegates will face this modern backdrop in the famed concert Hall of the palais de Chaillot in the Trocadero. It is Paris largest auditorium. On the ground floor the great Hall greets visitors. Delegates will pass through Hall Between auditorium and lounge patois was built for 1937 Paris exposition. Mural by Othon Friesz a contemporary French artist of the Fauve school hangs behind the bar of palais lounge. Building was begun in 1935, completed m 1939. Weekend april 3, 194  
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