CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923 — Page 417

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Hotel Metropole,

Geneva.

20 September, 1923.

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Dear Paskin,

In continuation of my letter of the 15th.September, I am

sending you under separate cover a dozen copies each of the Minutes

and Report of the Fifth Session of the Opium Advisory Committee.

Delevigne has not been able to get copies of van Wettum's

Kemorandum, but the latter has promised to send them when he gets

back to Holland.

I am also enclosing a copy of the draft report to the Council

which is being discussed by the Fifth Committee at the present

KREKK Moment.

You have of course seen the telegraphic correspondence between

Delevigne and Grindle. At yesterdays meeting of the Committee

Gilbert Murray, having been moved to do so by certain parties, got

up and proposed the following resolution in place of that contained

in Mlle.Bonnevie's Report: -

"The Assembly expresses its deep appreciation of the very valuble work done by the Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and other Dangerous Druga;adopts its reports and res- -olutions, and asks the Council to call a Conference of repres- -entatives with plenipotentiary powers of the States indicated in Resolution I in order to put these resolutions into effect. "The Assembly expresses the hope that the Council will take measures to call this Conference in time to receive a report of its action before the next Assembly, and that it will authorise the Secretariat to gather and coordinate the necessary inform- -ation and to make the other material arrangements requisite for the Conference".

France supported this proposal for a single Conference and

proposed that it should be held at Washington; Persia proposed

Tehran.

Mrs.Lyttelton, our representative, pressed our view of two, not

the one, conferences; India had other amendments, and in the end a

sub-committee was appointed to try and reach some conclusion. We

kept in reserve the possible admission of the United States to

the Far Eastern Conference.

The sub-committee was, I understand, somewhat of a dog fight;

roughly speaking they are suggesting to the Committee a Far Eastern

Conference to meet under the auspices of the League wherever the