Dear Sir Malcolm,
Downing Street,
Giugust, 1926.
I have spoken to Sir Samuel Wilson &bout
Nemazi and put your views before him. He retains the
opinion which he formed when the question wus
submitted to him, that the despatch in the form in
which it has now been approved by our Secretary of
State (1.8. without your pencil addition) is as far
as we ought to go in present circumstances. de is
sorry not to be able to agree with youbut he has
agreed to the Governor being told in & separate
despatch that the instructions which were issued to
his predecessor in 1924 are under consideration.
This will leave the door open, as you wish, for
the matter to be taken up agɛin on Grindle's return.
The Colonial Office view is based on the
following considerations:
When the 1924 instructions were issued,
Nemuzi was admittedly shipping Persian opium to the
SIR M. DELEVINGNE, A.C.B.,
Fur