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The British Delegation,
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Dear Waterlow,
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OFFICE
No. 155
Switserland,
20th November, 1924
Many thanks for your two telegrams received this morning. As regards the intention of the American Delegation to rejopen in the Second Conference the question of opium smoking in the Far Nast in the event of a satisfactory agreement not being conoluded by the First Conference, the only objection I see in the way of our making the proposal for a Commission of Inquiry is the probability which is almost a certainty Delegation ( and, I imagine, one or two other Delegations) would strongly object to the proposal.
that the French
Would it not be well
to sound the French Goverment privately before I actually
The matter is hardly bring forward the proposal heret likely to come up in a definite shape before next week.
The Second Conference has appointed a strong Committee of Business to make proposals for the arrangement of the business of the Conference, and the matter will presumably first be raised by the United States Delegation in that Committee, The First Conference does not meet again táll Saturday afternoon, and until it has definitely decided on the terms of a Convention, the United States Delegation would hardly be able to raise the matter.
I received this morning from the Home Office a copy of your letter to Anderson of Tuesday, and the drafts of tele-
I have no comments to grams to Tokio and Washington,
make on the telegrame except that our policy of restricting exports of opium and the drugs to Japan has not depended solely
P. P. Waterlow, Esq., C,B.E.,
on
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