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OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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BAAER SEP 10
SECTION 2.
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No. 1.
Dear Sir Francis,
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir F. Campbell.-(Received August 10.)
Dorchester House, Park Lane, London, August 8, 1910. I DID not fail to convey informally to my Government the assurance you were kind enough to give me, in our conversation of the 22nd July, that we might probably hope for a reply to our request for the adhesion of His Majesty's Government to the proposed Opium Congress at The Hague towards the middle of the following week.
Doubtless in the hope that this reply might now be under consideration, I am instructed to say that the State Department has learned with pleasure from Mr. Montague's address on the Indian Budget what importance the British Government attaches to the question of controlling the sale of morphine and cocaine,
It had been the intention of the United States to suggest a discussion of this subject at the proposed Hague Conference. It will be highly gratified, however, if in the expected reply to its proposal of the 8th June for an International Opium Conference His Majesty's Government should take the initiative on this question of including morphine and cocaine in its deliberations.
Believe me, &c.
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