AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE
LORD R. CECIL’S MISSION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, April 22. Mr Porter, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the House of Representatives, has sent a letter to Lord Robert Cecil in which he declined to hold a conversation which Lord Robert Cecil had requested concerning restrictions on tho drug traffic. Mr Porter sent Lord Robert Cecil a copy of the Congressional resolution dealing with drugs, bad declared that Lord Robert Cecil’s assertions that tho League of Nations had struck vigorous blows at tho sale of drugs was wholly without facts to support it, and had really encouraged the sale by legitimising this evil. Mr Porter quoted tho Sastri amendment to tho Koo resolution adopted by the League Council outlawing opium growing in India, thereby vitiating tho League’s ostensible purpose to curb the cultivation of opium poppy. The letter also bitterly attacks Lord Robert Cecil’s American tour, and points out that the G idled States, without thought of revenue, suppresses tho drug traffic ns far as possible, and the writer expresses tho hope that Britain will do likewise. —A. anti N.Z. Cable.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19230424.2.48
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 9
Word Count
187AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE Evening Star, Issue 18258, 24 April 1923, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in