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an immense scale. It is clear that opium smoking
cannot be brought to an end until there is a
stable Government in China which is willing and
able first to reduce and then to suppress opium
growing.
In the meantime, in our possessions
outside China in which there are large Chinese
populations it is the strong opinion of our Governor and of practically all our high officials that far more evil than good would result from trying to prohibit and penalise the practice amongst Chinese. The question therefore is how far an advance may be made upon the present regula- tions for restriction. These regulations should be enforced simultaneously and so far as possible uniformly in the Far Eastern Dependencies of Western Powers, and by Japan and Siam.
The policy of His Majesty's Government
is not to pose an specially righteous by drastic action in our own Colonies only, nor is there any occasion for thiscountry to show itself as specially sensitive to adverse criticism, or to court the approval of enthusiasts either in this
What country or in the United States of America.
we want is to get other countries to go as far
The as we have gone and are prepared to go. case of our Colonie, is that they cannot go further at present than they have shown their willingness to go. We are prepared to have this case examined by a delegation sent by the League of Nations to study the question in the Far East for (say) a year, visiting each country concerned. We are prepared to accept delegates
of other nationalities, (say) one of French and
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