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States in the opium problem is material as well as

humanitarian, and that, as the result of the investigation

1 made before the meeting of the International Opium

Commission, the Congress enacted legislation whion aimed

to prevent the importation of opium into the United States

except for medicinal purposes, But it was noted that

the United States is not an opium producing country, and

that in order to make its present and proposed laws fully

effective and so stamp out the national opium and allied

evils, there should be control of opium and other habit

forming drugs shipped to this country; and therefore that,

to attain this end, it would be necessary to secure

international co-operation and the sympathy of opium

producing countries.

Continuing, the proposal stated that this Government

impressed by the gravity of the opium and allied problems

and the desirability of divesting them of local and

unwise agitation as well as by the necessity of maintaining

the entire question upon the basis of fact, as determined

by the Shanghai Commission, suggested the following

tentative