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States in the opium problem is material as well as
humanitarian, and that, as the result of the investigation
1 made before the meeting of the International Opium
Commission, the Congress enacted legislation whion aimed
to prevent the importation of opium into the United States
except for medicinal purposes, But it was noted that
the United States is not an opium producing country, and
that in order to make its present and proposed laws fully
effective and so stamp out the national opium and allied
evils, there should be control of opium and other habit
forming drugs shipped to this country; and therefore that,
to attain this end, it would be necessary to secure
international co-operation and the sympathy of opium
producing countries.
Continuing, the proposal stated that this Government
impressed by the gravity of the opium and allied problems
and the desirability of divesting them of local and
unwise agitation as well as by the necessity of maintaining
the entire question upon the basis of fact, as determined
by the Shanghai Commission, suggested the following
tentative