Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geneva, Opium Week at the Palace of the League of Nations opened auspiciously with an agreement between Britain and Japan whereby Britain now consents to recognize Japan's opium import certificates (TIME, Nov. 24) when the drug is transshipped at Hongkong...
...Control of production and distribution of raw opium and coca leaves, so that no surplus would be left for purposes neither medical nor scientific...
Soon after the opening of the plenary meeting, Proposal A was settled by referring it to a commission for examination. But thunder clouds began to accumulate as discussion of Proposal B started. Mr. Porter had resolved to end the opium scourge. "Only by doing that," said he, "can we put sunshine and happiness into millions of homes where misery and squalor exist." Several minutes were filled with uproarious applause...
...chief delegate for India?one Campbell, a Briton?immediately opposed Proposal B, said that its adoption would deprive the people of India of opium for their personal use. The atmosphere became heated; and all manner of gross insinuations were hurled. Mr. Campbell held that the U. S. delegates had at last year's League Conference withdrawn their objections to India's demand for the continuance of opium eating and had stated that they did not wish to interfere in domestic matters. He insisted that the matter could not be reopened; if it were, the Indian delegation would find it difficult...
Persia, third* largest opium growing country in the world, issued a statement to the effect that she was ready to abolish opium growing for the culture of silk, cotton, tea, tobacco, hemp and flax, provided she were accorded a loan of $10,000,000 for 20 years. In private, she let it be known that it was to the U. S. that she looked for this money...