CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922 — Page 19

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22nd March, 1922.

My dear Grindle,

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Thank you for your letter of the 14th instant and the statement you enclosed of the Colonial Office policy in regard to the suppression under Article 6 of the International Opium Convention of the trade in and use of prepared opium in our Far Eastern Colonies and Dependencies. I notice you call it a "confidential" memorandum, but I gather from the second paragraph of your letter that I am authorised if necessary to explain to the Opium Advisory Committee the intentions of the Colonial Office

as set out in the memorandum.

I have had a note from MacElderry to say that he has arrived at Geneva and betting to work. I am sure he will be of

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very great assistance there,

Yours very sincerely,

makolu Delwreigne

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Sir Gilbert Grindle, K.C.M.G., C.B..