Guest Blogger: Postcard from Geneva
Salle de la Reformation. The official opening of the League of Nations. Photo obtained on Wikimedia Commons: “ This file is a digital replica of a document or a part of a document available at the National Library of Norway under the URN no-nb_nansen_2488 . ” The new League of Nations held its first General Assembly in Geneva on November 15, 1920. My great uncle Loring Christie was there as part of the Canadian delegation , and wrote about it in letters to his parents. Below are some excerpts, written in December, 1920. "I am writing this in the Assembly Hall & I hope you will forgive the pencil. The speeches are not very inspiring this morning and I seize the moment to send love & Christmas greetings … The Assembly has now been going since Nov. 15; people are getting fed up & tired of each other; there is a general determination to bring the thing to an end, and I think it certain that we shall be through by the end of next week i.e. the 17th or