CO129-364 - Public Offices & Others - 1909 — Page 414

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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter marked Confidential No. 33150/1909 requesting my observations on the proposal of the Government of the United States for the assembly of an International Conference on the Opium question and

on the terms of the programme outlined.

Among the Resolutions brought forward by the United States' Delegation at Shanghai was one similar to the proposal now made for the consideration

It was as follows: of His Majesty's Government.

That whereas the Reports submitted to the

International Opium Commission by the Delegations present directly or indirectly recognize that the foregoing Resolutions cannot be made effective except by the conjoint action of the Governments concerned:

Be it resolved therefore that the Commission

as a whole record its sense in favour of the principle of an International Conference for the

solution of the problem.

The British Delegation intimated that such

a matter was not within the scope of the Commission, and that they were unable to agree to it.

Subse-

quent discussion in Committee resulted in the United

States

The Under Secretary of State,

&C.,

COLONIAL OFFICE.

&C.,

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