Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Sye's defense of China's withdrawal from the Geneva Opium Conference, recalls the fact that the world's drug trade still persists. Every nation has had its share of censure for the failure of that convention,--and the League more than its share. But who was really at fault is still hotly disputed, and Dr. Sye's remarks are a valuable contribution to that debate...
China suffers from the opium trade more than all other nations together, and she had everything to gain from the success of the conference. Her withdrawal was made only after desperate protest and when there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies...
...Second International Opium Convention (TIME, Nov. 24 et seq.; Mar. 2) was thrown open for signature to all States, members and non-members of the League...
...Adoption of effective measures by the contracting parties to prevent, within five years, opium smuggling...
...Declaration by opium -smoking countries that they will entirely suppress the habits within 15 years after the smuggling menace has been removed...