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...Second International Opium Conference at Geneva (the longest parley in the history of the League of Nations), which suffered its ups and downs for three months (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.), came to an end last week when Belgium, Britain, Australia, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Holland, Persia, Portugal and Siam, out of 40 nations represented at the conference, signed an Opium Convention and Protocol. More nations may yet sign...
Turkey and Persia declared that it was impossible for their peasants to give up cultivating the poppy until other profitable crops were given them in return...
...Great Britain. Exclusive of Persia, 1,607,053 square miles of territory with 35,000,000 inhabitants-more territory than there is in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas; valuable natural resources; destruction of her only great rival, both naval and commercial...
After two more days of storm and stress it was agreed to refer the U. S. plan to a committee of eight (suggested by Finland's representative), composed of the U. S., Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, Italy, Persia, Poland...
...instantly dubbed it a tour de force, a term which critics find invaluable and sometimes even apt; it was, at all events, a tour. In the Evocation Catalane, the Flonzaleys went to Spain; in the Raga, to Kashmir; in the Ireland-aise, to Ireland; in the Gasal, to Persia. Clever, literary music it was, each division telling a story. The Fonzaleys told those stories with their fingers...