(15100/12).
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the other Departments concerned to the proposed
inter-Departmental Committee, I am to point out
that, in regard to the legislation to be enacted in
the United Kingdom and the colonies to give effect to
the provisions of the Opium Convention, as distinct
from the international negotiations which resulted
in the signature of that Convention, the Foreign
Office is only concerned in quite a secondary degree,
and Sir E. Grey is therefore of opinion that the
summoning of the Inter-Departmental Committee should
be left to one of the Departments more directly
interested.
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A representative of the Foreign Office would
however attend the Committee when it is ultimately
summoned, and Sir E. Grey would suggest that the
Home Office, and possible also the Treasury,
should
be represented on it.
1 am, Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
Eije
Ada