Word: opium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Daggers flash in the dim light of Chinese opium dens, doors roll back at the touch of the villain's finger and the spectator is led through an amazing labyrinth of underground passages which lead to the apartments of the opium king of the Chinese underworld. The scenario is highly improbable throughout and in places is not even connected...
...Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every land. The Council then voted impotent concurrence with recommendations made by Senator Dandurand as to how this...
...Opium Problem Important...
...problem of opium has a direct bearing upon militarism. It is a patent fact that opium growing has become more extensive in the provinces. The country itself which nine years ago was almost rid of opium, is now the scene of a brisk smuggling trade that is protected by the militarists for the sake of the large revenue the opium trade yields. Lack of political unity is easily recognizable in china, tor while the Chinese have a remarkable solidarity, there is nevertheless, no well-articulated national feeling. The imperial government has been a mere figure-head to the far distant...
Below the bubbles of diplomatic froth is going forward a work that represents real progress in international co-operation. The Conventions on the Traffic in Opium, on the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, on the International Regime of Railways, and on the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms have been signed or ratified by a majority of the countries of the world. It is safe to say that all the heralded accomplishment of the Hague Conference did not compare with the sum of these benefits...