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40958
OPIUM.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[49321]
No. 1.
RECE Orto BONOV 13
SECTION 1.
Sir,
Colonial Office to Foreign Office.-(Received October 30.)
Downing Street, October 29, 1913. WITH reference to your letter of the 16th April, 1912, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to enquire whether, in the opinion of Secretary Sir Edward Grey, the time has now come when an informal interdepartmental committee should be appointed to consider the general lines of the legislation necessary to give effect in the United Kingdom to The Hague Opium Convention.
2. Mr. Harcourt gathers that it is not probable that the convention will be ratified before the end of this year, and he is aware that legislation need not be introduced into Parliament for some time after the last instrument of ratification has been received. But it appears to him that in so important and complicated a question considerable discussion will be necessary before the drafting of an Imperial Act is commenced. Mr. Harcourt is therefore inclined to think that it would be as well to take steps to appoint the Committee at no distant date.
I am, &c. (For the Under-Secretary of State),
H. J. READ,
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