sir Edward Cook to Mr. Waterlow.
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Bangkok,
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12th April, 1927.
My dear Waterlow,
I found your confidential letter of 4th April about
Namazie waiting for me om my return to Bangkok.
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Hy own personal opinion is that, if it happened to
suit the Siamese Government to purchase Persian opium again
from Namazie, they need not be deterred, by reason of what
is said in the memorandum enclosed with your letter. The
alleged occurrence took place nearly 5 years ago. A Court
of Justice declared that there was no case against Namazie.
There remains the Saigon gossip of the time very poor
reason for blacklisting a man, I am now not surprised that
the Singapore authorities were indignant at being compelled,
on such flimsy evidence, to give up dealing with this man
and to confine themselves to the ring of Jewish dealers,
many of whom have intimate business relations with the Jews
of the Shanghai Opium Squeeze,
Naturally, Siam would prefer to buy direct from the
Persian Government, and negotiations to that end are going
on, I am not sure that they will come to anything.
not yet certain that the Americans at Teheran are in a
position to deliver the goods.
Yours ever,
(sd) K.M.Cook.
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