Word: opiumeators
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...proposal for ending the opium trade is contained in two seemingly simple proposals...
...control production of opium by forbidding the cultivation of the deadly poppy, except for medicinal and scientific usage...
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...
...nations that were most interested in the opium subject were the U. S., Britain, France, the Netherlands. The reason for this is not remote; the U. S. has the Philippines, Britain has India, France has large interests in the Orient, the Netherlands administer an empire in the East Indies. In all these countries, the opium evil is felt to a great extent, and a sincere desire is felt in common for a satisfactory eradication of one of the world's greatest scourges; but differences of opinion arose on the means by which a scotching of opium production...
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 After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn...