Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Restraint of the palate, that is, eating for the mere sustenance of the body and abstaining from intoxicating drinks and drugs such as opium and tobacco...
Small Switzerland, where the Conference met, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of narcotics, with Turkey a potent rival. Opium poppies are raised without limit in China and Persia, a fact which sorely vexes Indian poppy growers who are now forced by the British Government to cut down their acreage 10% each year. U. S. experts boast that U. S.-manufactured narcotics are found in only 1% of U. S. raids, almost never found in raids abroad. These facts, the U.S. delegation will argue at Geneva, suggest that U. S. methods of supervising and limiting the manufacture...
...were not badly treated," said Miss Nelson. "General Ho gave us coffee and cake while we discussed religion and world politics. His wife is mission-educated. So are many of his advisers. His men are well disciplined. They are executed instantly if caught smoking opium. General Ho is a Communist and objects to being called a bandit. He predicts that Communistic principles will eventually conquer all China...
From northeast Yunnan a missionary reported that in his district 98% of the men smoked opium, 40% of the women. Two-thousand-horse opium caravans "frequently" (according to another missionary) trek north from the "Opium Capital" in Szechwan, the city of Chungking which boasts 100 morphine factories, 150 opium shops and 4,000 dens?all licensed, legal...
Under such circumstances a "realistic" opium policy, according to Minister Soong, cannot be one of prohibition. Consequently Chinese Treasury officials have been sent to Formosa to study Japan's opium system: restricted sales under Government monopoly. If shrewd Minister Soong does harness opium to his Treasury chariot, he may find a way to balance the Chinese budget for some time to come, may find opium an aid in standing off the U. S. silver producers who want to unload on China a silver loan (TIME, Jan. 19). Last week Senator Key Pittman of silver-surplussed Nevada announced in Washington that...