Word: pletely
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Porter agreed, under pressure, to extend the time limit for the com- plete suppression of opium production from 10 to 15 years, but the period was virtually to begin forthwith. Britain would and could not agree. She wanted the period to begin from a time when China had effectively suppressed the excess growth of the opium poppy and so removed the danger of smuggling. In other words, progressive restriction on the cultivation of the poppy was not practical international politics until the smuggling danger had been removed...