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...King was the official representative of two important Middle-Western nev. spapers at the League of Nations' Assembly last summer in Geneva and is now a student at Cambridge University, England. He has been in a position to observe the work of the Assembly and to interview many of the leading men connected with its activities...
...take long for the causal visitor to Geneva, during the Third League Assembly, in September 1922, to reach the obvious conclusion that the League is very much alive. In common with many other Americans, with whom the press and visitors' galleries in the Assembly Hall were literally packed, I attended the sessions of the Council, Assembly, and Commissions day by day for over a month, and came away strongly convinced that the League, far from being in any sense dead, had definitely come to stay in the world, and had a spirit behind it, embodied by such leaders as Lord...
...important member of the Assembly of 1922 was Lord Chelmsford, a hard headed British proconsul who had been Governor successively of Queensland and New South Wales, and for five years Victory of India. He came to Geneva reluctantly and as a skeptic, in the position of First Delegate of India to the Assembly. After a few weeks of participation in the work of the League, he admitted gracefully that he had been mistaken in his judgement, and delivered the following thoughtful tribute from the door of the Assembly...
Many good people far from the seat of the League's activity,--an activity which, though worldwide, has its organic center at Geneva,--still talk loosely of the League of Nations as a vague idealistic dream. Nothing could be farther from the truth, as Lord Chelmsford, a practical administrator of long experience, has so aptly pointed out. The fact is that even in its short three years of history the League has undertaken and successfully completed a variety of international tasks of a practical constructive nature, such, in many cases, as have never before been accomplished in the world...
...atmosphere of peaceful cooperation and agreement that pervaded the whole scene of League activity at Geneva was immensely impressive to an outside observer. Not a single personal discord between individual delegates marred the completely conciliatory spirit of the sessions of 1922. It was no less than thrilling to see Spaniard and Swede, Frenchman and Brazilian, Greek, and Chinaman conferring amiably and pleasantly together,--often over a cigar, or on a stroll along the Lake Front in the sunshine,--over world problems and concerns that were of common interest to them both. No one yet knows the immense number of international...