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Chorally, would fail to satisfy enlightened public opinion
unless by subsequent agreement of the Powers they and the
minor questions involved in them were incorporated in an
international convention.
Impressed by the gravity of the opium problem and the
desirability of divesting it of local and unwise agitation,
as
well as the necessity of maintaining it upon the basis
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of fact as determined by the Shanghai Commission, the United
btates deems it important that international effect and sanc
tion be given to the resolutions of the International Opium
Commission, and to this end proposes that an international
conference be held at a convenient date at The Hague or
elsewhere, composed of one or more delegates of each of
the participating Fowers, and that the delegates should
have full powers to conventionalize the resolutions adopt-
ed at Shanghai, and their necessary consequences. The Gov-
emment of the United States suggests as a tentative pro-
gramme, based upon the resolutions and
International Commission, the following:
proceedings of the
(a) The advisability of uniform national lows and
regulations to control the production, manufacture, and
distribution of opium, its derivatives and preparations;
(b)....