It is not generally known why Colonel House chose Geneva, in preference to Lausanne, as the seat of the League of Nations.... After long and careful deliberation, which yet produced only indecision, I am told that he asked his valet’s advice.
Joseph replied: “Geneva would be much better for your rheumatism!”
Once installed, however, Colonel House discovered another reason. At Geneva, lived Josephine!
CHAPTER XXXV
THE FUTURE—ABOVE ALL, A LASTING PEACE
Will the future bring us peace; above all, a lasting peace? Though nothing less is worth having, we cannot have war.
I saw M. Franklin-Bouillon in Paris and, though not perhaps in agreement with all he did in Syria, I maintain that his work in Moudania deserved thanks rather than criticism. He knows the Turks well, and affirms that he would have made peace at Lausanne. He possibly might have done so, but would it have been lasting peace?