League of Nations Narcotics Commission, with wall map

League of Nations Narcotics Commission, with wall map

The League of Nations, headquartered through the 1920s and early 1930s in a former Geneva hotel known as the Palais Wilson, relocated to the Palais des Nations in 1936. The Palais des Nations, 12 years in the making, was the second largest building in the world, after Versailles, and provided ample space for the League’s Assembly, Council and Secretariat, the technical organisations on economics, transport, and health and the advisory commissions on military questions, disarmament, mandates, women’s rights, refugees, slavery, human trafficking, the drug trade and intellectual cooperation. This photograph shows the League’s Commission on Opium and Other Narcotic Drugs in session at the Palais des Nations in 1939.

United Nations Archives at Geneva