Journée du Timbre
o Europe’s optimists it seemed possible in the 1930s that the new decade might bring countries together in sports, pastimes and other recreations that would heal the scars, and distance the memories, of World War One. In that spirit the International Philately Federation proposed at its 1935 Brussels Conference that member nations should set aside one day of the year and call it Stamp Day. The lumbering machinery of bureaucracy slowed the realisation of the project somewhat; but by 1938 the French Federation of Philatelic Associations announced its readiness to go ahead with nationwide events. At that time it had no stamp
