CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926 — Page 15

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I need not remind you, for you are well aware of it, that

Nemazee's record is well known both in the League and outside of it,

and the facts that he has been made a British subject and resides

and carries on his business in a British Colony place us in an

position of real embarrassment at Geneva. The Colonial Office are

going to make that position very much worse if they deliberately

decide to give Nemazee and the members of his family and firm, while

they reside at Hong Kong, facilities to go about as they please and

carry on any business they choose outside the Colony. You will

surely appreciate that if, as a result of these facilities, Nemazee

or his firm should engage in some illicit opium transaction and

should be caught at it, we should have nothing whatever to say in

Geneva or elsewhere in our defence.

Yours sincerely,

malcoben Delerigne

on

18JAN 1927 30046/27