Dear Grindle,
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30th December, 1921.
Tour note of the 28th. I shall be very pleased to have with
me, at the next meeting of the League of Nations Advisory Committee on Opium,one of your Far Eastern officials who is familiar with the whole subject, and if McElderry is as pleasant and competent as Fletcher, his
selection will be very agreeable to me.
I have several times (and so recently as last week in a letter to Sir Bric Drumond) reminded the officials of the Secretariat of the League of the recommendation made by the Opium Advisory Committee that expert assistance should be obtained by the Secretariat in the examination of the replies received to the questionnaire and preparing a general summary and review of the position for the assistance of the Committee. The work in the Secretariat, however, has been delayed on account of the slowness of the Governments in sending in their replies to the questionnaire and also by the absence at Washington of Dr. Yen, who is head of the Opium Seo tion in the Secretariat. When I last discussed the matter with Dr. Yen in September the Secretariat were intending to adopt the recommendation of the Committee and had obtained a small grant of money for the purpose. I don't know whether the French Government have put forward the name of any French official up to the present, but I know some Dutoh official has been suggested by the Chairman of the Opium Advisory Committee who is himself a Dutchman. you think that lie Elderry will be a suitable person I will gladly put his name forward and press for his selection.
In any case we shall have the opportunity of examining the
G. Grindle, Esq., C.B., C.M.G.,
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