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amggling. The idea of the system of boycotting as a means of putting pressure on countries which did not adhere to the Convention would of course lead to the same result a parallel development of cultivation and manufacture in the two groups which would be thus
No reover, placed in opposition and driven to become self-supporting.
it must not be forgotten that no effective direct control of the cultivation and export of the raw material from cultivating countrice is at present practicable, In almost all the countries in question
no such control exists or can be set up for a considerable time to come,
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Any system of direct limitation would violate all these prin-
ciples. On the other hand, the systom of indirect limitation would remove every one of the difficulties mentioned,
"Such indirect limitation could be brought about by the establishment of strict control, both national and international, of the persons who manufacture, import, gall, distribute or forward the arugs, of the buildings in which these persons carry on their industry or trade, and of the materials they employ, which should be submitted to meticulous supervision, to be continued from the time of their first appearance until they are finally consumed and to extend not only to their movements in the interior of a country, but also to the
international traffic,"
Just as it has been possible to organise effectively the control of national trade in druge in many countries by the adoption of legislative measures, so the control of the international trade, the only source of smuggling in these countries, can be effectively organised by the adoption of international measures of a similar nature to the national measures (these should cover notably free
ports, transit, warehousing, etc.).
The authors of the Hague Convention, in many respects a most remarkable document had indeed contemplated the introduction of
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