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5. That Sir Malcolm Delevingne should at once prepare a memorandum on the speech made by Mr. Porter in the Second Conference when putting forward the American proposals on Chapter II, of the Convention, which should be submitted to the Foreign Office with a view to their considering the question of making strong representations to Washington on the impropriety of the allegations made against the british Government; that subsequently similar memoranda should be prepared by the Home Office and the India Office on other unwarranted allegations made at the Conferences with a view to possible diplomatic representations to the Governments concerned.

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6. That the Foreign Office should intitiate a programme of propaganda and publicity for the British (and Indian) case in relation to pium, co-ordinating information received from the Home Office, Colonial Office and India Offico; this campaign being opened by a reasoned letter from the Home Secretary or the Foreign Secretary to a upclocted correspondent on the subject of "What has Groat Britain dons in the Opium Question?".

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