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With regard to the official body which should control the application of the Convention, it was objected that it would be difficlt to compose this body in such a wag that its decisions Would be impartial to all questions. Che of tho members of the Oormittae thought that the control should be left with a body of cxports independant of the Gore ruments.
The rationing of the factories world operate in such a manner as to impede all fair competition.
If other comtries than those already producing
are allowed to produce, this would lead to difficulties. Two possitibiliés can be thought of:-
(a) Coca leaf growing would be stopped if the producers wore not sure of a certain market.
(b) The price would increase to such an extent that countries which did not now manufacture cocaine for internal use would start doing so in the future, with the recult that factories in small countries which could not subsist on internal trade alme would be squeezed out. would be an undesirable position fob the country concerned.
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Inherent to Dir Malcolm Delevingne's scheme is a boycott system which would lead to the creation of centres of stuggling, or to the moving of factories from countries which adhere to the Convention
to countries which do not adhere to it. Also it
was doubted whether it were logally possible for a country bound by a commercial treaty with another country to agree to any such boycotting.
Articles 17, 18 and 19 are of such a nature that eithor
(c) they ought to bo previously discussed by the Advisory Committee, or,
(b) their legal character makes it impossible to take any decision at short notice. They would bring some ting now into the legislation of many countries.
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