Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dissentior, altercation, prevarication, ire and other manifestations of temper uncontrolled were the order of several days' poppy talk in the halls of the League of Nations at Geneva, where some Nations of the world continued their long conference on the opium question (TIME...
While the Council of the League discussed matters at Rome, the Opium Conference tried to discuss opium at Geneva...
Discussion, wearying and pointless, centred about the U. S. proposal for a central body to control production of the drug and a plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium. Nobody could agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn...
...Opium Conference, which opened among the sincere acclamations of hopeful humanitarians, has closed in a temporary checkmating of all its lofty aspirations. From the beginning, the representatives of India, China, and Japan have seemed to block, by objections of doubtful validity, the fulfillment of the Conference's hopes. After alternatives of action were offered, the American proposal was on the point of acceptance; but the clamorous objections of the Indian representative concerning the adequate power of the Conference to adopt the suggested protocol led the French and English representatives to arrange a suspension of the Conference. Meanwhile, a committee...
...thoughtful students of international affairs, the opium question is an accurate gauge of the existing degree of international-mindedness. If the powers cannot forego their petty advantages to wipe out a universally recognized menace, the hope for international cooperation is ludicrous. If the inherently selfish aspects of nationalism can in this one case he overcome by a feeling of community of need and action, hopes of the League and of all internationalists will rise. Eventually the Opium Conference will receive either ignominy for spiking the wheels of the new chariot of internationalism, or high praise for aiding the progress...