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CANADIAN DELEGATION

DÉLÉGATION DU CANADA

Hotel de la Paix,
Geneva ,
October 2nd , 1936.

His Excellency
The Rt. Hon. Lord Tweedsmuir, G.C.M.G., C.H.,
Governor-General of Canada,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

My dear J.B.

By the time this communication reaches you , so
much will already have been told in the press that there is,
I fear, little in the way of news which it would be worth
while trying to send in a letter. A word or two may serve
to bring you up to date with my doings and present views.

The journey across the Atlantic was exceedingly
pleasant, freedom of fog almost the entire way and not more
than a day or two when it was at all rough at sea, the
sky being for the most part clear , and the sea for the
most part calm. Our little party were able to get some
real enjoyment as well as rest out of the trip. We were
able as well to have many conferences together on matters
to be discussed at Geneva.

We reached Cherbourg on a Thursday, spent
Friday in Paris and were at Geneva on Saturday morning.
After attending the service at the Cathedral on Sunday
morning, I lunched with Malcolm Macdonald at the Carlton
Parc Hotel and we had a long talk together. It was
immediately apparent that the views of our delegation
with respect to what it was best to do at the League
this year, were very, if not wholly, similar to those
of the United Kingdom delegation. We both felt that this
was not a time to attempt any revision of the Covenant
but rather a moment when discussion concerning it should
be kept within as narrowed limits as possible.