<P> Despite Wilson's efforts to establish and promote the League, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October 1919, the United States never joined . Senate Republicans led by Henry Cabot Lodge wanted a League with the reservation that only Congress could take the U.S. into war . Lodge gained a majority of Senators . Wilson refused to allow a compromise and the needed 2 / 3 majority was lacking . </P> <P> The League held its first council meeting in Paris on 16 January 1920, six days after the Versailles Treaty and the Covenant of the League of Nations came into force . On 1 November 1920, the headquarters of the League was moved from London to Geneva, where the first General Assembly was held on 15 November 1920 . The Palais Wilson on Geneva's western lakeshore, named after US President Woodrow Wilson in recognition of his efforts towards the establishment of the League, was the League's first permanent home . </P> <P> The official languages of the League of Nations were French, English, and Spanish . The League rejected adopting Esperanto as its working language . China and Japan wanted Esperanto but France was strongly opposed . </P> <P> In 1939, a semi-official emblem for the League of Nations emerged: two five - pointed stars within a blue pentagon . They symbolised the Earth's five continents and five "races". A bow at the top displayed the English name ("League of Nations"), while another at the bottom showed the French ("Société des Nations"). </P>

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