CO129-498-18 Activities of Haji Muhammad Hasan Namazi- connection with the opium traffic 5-5-1926 - 24-12-1926 — Page 56

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Dear Sir Malcolm,

Downing Street,

Giugust, 1926.

I have spoken to Sir Samuel Wilson &bout

Nemazi and put your views before him. He retains the

opinion which he formed when the question wus

submitted to him, that the despatch in the form in

which it has now been approved by our Secretary of

State (1.8. without your pencil addition) is as far

as we ought to go in present circumstances. de is

sorry not to be able to agree with youbut he has

agreed to the Governor being told in & separate

despatch that the instructions which were issued to

his predecessor in 1924 are under consideration.

This will leave the door open, as you wish, for

the matter to be taken up agɛin on Grindle's return.

The Colonial Office view is based on the

following considerations:

When the 1924 instructions were issued,

Nemuzi was admittedly shipping Persian opium to the

SIR M. DELEVINGNE, A.C.B.,

Fur

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