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01 83 ‚TwainİM abr:Itedts writ

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the circumstances reported in his present letter

constitute an obstacle, from the point of view of His

Majesty's Government, to the assembling of the pro-

posad conference this year, should be answered in the

affirmative.

The International Opium Commission found, as was

stated in Sir E. Grey's letter of the 31st January

to Baron Gericke, that the unrestricted manufacture,

sale and distribution of morphia constituted a grave

danger, and that drastic measures of an international

character were necessary. The same applies to cocaine.

It is essential to secure that the problem of control-

ling the traffic in these drugs should not be shelved

when the opium question comes under international con-

sideration.

The Conference offers the best chance

of securing effective control over the manufacture,

sale and distribution of these drugs. In the hope

that a preliminary understanding on the point of

principle may be arrived at by the Powers, a postpone-

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