A rumor rustled through the narrow, cobblestoned streets of the historic city: plans were being made for housing the new League of Nations in Quebec.
Enterprising young Armand Viau, lately hired to whoop up the city's qualities as an industrial center, had been told, he said, that a delegation would look over Quebec this summer. He had blueprints of great, new ultra-modern buildings ready to show them. The architecture naturally would be Old Quebec. There would be three large buildings costing $10,000,000, a hotel and suburban houses.
There was a certain vagueness in Promoter Viau's story. Blueprints? It would not be...
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