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MINUTES.

experimenting with coca growing).

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U.S.A. make various

suggestions for discussion, most of

which need not cause us any concern.

One of them however we shall have to

consider viz.

"The acceptance of the principle

that no state should rely upon the

revenue from the control of opium

for purposes of operating the

Goverment beyond the expenses incident

to controlling the narcotics traffic".

I mention this now 48

hitherto F.E. Dept. has not taken a

very active interest in this general

conference, and the Eastern Governments

have only been asked to send

representatives for the F.E.

Conference; but if this sort of

question is to be discussed at the

Second Conference, it may be necessary

to have them in attendance for both

Conferences.

We can however ? defer

any action until the question of the

British Delegation is raised (cf.9507)

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27. Mr. Lumley, - To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he is aware that the American government has laid before the committee of preparation for the League of Nations Opium Conferences proposals providing that no state chall rely on revenue from the production or sale of narcotic drugs except to finance the control of traffic in such narcotics; and whether it is the intention of His Majesty's Government to endorse this principle. [Wednesday 9th April.]

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