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In any further communication
on this subject, please quote
No. 47421/11.
and address
The Under-Secretary of State,
Foreign Office,
London.
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FORMIGN OFFER ||
December
1911.
5.
0.38106.
Sir:-
I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to state, for
the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, that he has
received from the Chairman of the Representative Board of
the Anti-Opium Societies of Great Britain and Ireland a
letter, which is understood to have been addressed also to
Ir. Harcourt, deprecating the appointment of Sir U.
Clementi-Smith as British Delegate to the International
Opium Conference.
Sir E. Grey proposes to reply to ir. Laxwell that
Sir C. Clementi-Smith's attitude at the Shanghai
International Commission had the full approval of His
Majesty's Goverment and that they consider him to be
eminently qualified to represent this country at the
Conference now sitting.
I am to enquire whether kr. Harcourt concurs in the
The Under Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.
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