One of the first activities of the new occupants was to remove and cover over murals and tilework that had decorated the building in its previous function as the seat of the International ­Labour Organ­ization (ILO). Rolled up and stashed in a gardener's cottage was a mural by Dean Cornwell; donated by the American Federation of ­Labor in 1956, the mural depicted female secretaries at walls of card cata­logues, brass bands, and elementary schoolteachers flanking a central image of a bare-­chested worker in an ironworker's apron, broken shackles dangling from his wrists.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 790