Word: opiumeators
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...situation is, in its potentialities, quite as serious as any since the war, for it is in its essence an attack on the policy of isolation. As such, it deserves profound consideration by the administration. Now that Hughes has left the cabinet, the possibilities of a repetition of the Opium Conference flasco are too serious to be overlooked and consequences immeasurably worse would be involved by another admitted failure...
...agreement between the above nations, Portugal making certain exceptions, to substitute government monoply of opium exports and imports for privately conducted trade. (The U. S. delegation wanted the source of production-i.e., the cultivation of the opium poppy-controlled progressively until finally restricted to purely medicinal uses...
...agreement to permit legal sales under rule of The Hague Convention, of heroin and laudanum (opium products). (The U. S. delegation, here joined by the British, wanted both these drugs barred as being medicinally dangerous...
...Finnish delegate caused a commotion by declaring that Chinese Tuchuns (Military Governors) produced and sold opium illicitly in order to buy illicitly munitions for their wars. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst sage, remarked...
...That's a nice picture of civilization, Christian nations using one part of their money to send missionaries to the Chinese and another part of their money to stimulate the deadly opium traffic, that the heathen may be able to purchase weapons to kill each other...