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private trader will, in my
opinion, greatly reduce the diffi-:
culties to be faced when further
DRAFT.
progressive measures for the
control of the use of opium
ere undertaken.
(111) is attractive, if for no
other reason than that its
general adoption under the aegis
of the League of Nations would
MINUTE,
at once remove one of the grounds
rn
on which attacks on the Far Easte/
Mr.
Mr.
Mr. Davis.
Sir G. Grindle.
Sir H. Read.
Sir J. Masterton Smith.
Mr. Ormsby-Gore.
Duke of Devonshire,
Colonies have from time to time
'
been made by ill-informed persons
or Societies.
The result of
the attempt which was made by
your Government at the beginning
of 1920 was a sufficient indica-
tion of the difficulties in the
way of the adoption of a policy
involving an arbitrary restriction
of the amount of Govt opium
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placed
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