LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 18259, 26 April 1923, Page 10

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

THE DRUG TRADE. LOUD R. CECIL REPLIES TO MR PORTER. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 24. Lord Robert Cecil relying to Mr Porter (member of the House of Representatives), stated that he entirely agrees with Mr Porter concerning the evil of the drug traffic, and though ho cannot speak officially for the British Government, he is certain that the latter will take the same view on the subject. Jfo added “No country or people can claim a monopoly of virtue in that respect,” and he declares that he adheres without qualification *-o his statements that the League has struck a vigorous blow at the drug trade, lie points out that the League succeeded in securing the signature of fifty-one out of fifty-two of its members to the International Convention of 1912, in which the Powers pledged themselves to the gradual but complete suppression of opium abuses. The League also tried to go further—namely, an entirely new step in endeavoring to limit the world production of opium. Lord Robert Cecil concluded: “The very fact that Mr Porter is under a misapprehension as to what the League has been doing justifies his own efforts not, In propose any change in the United States’s policy towards the League, hut to give information in America concerning what the League is actually doing.”—A. and N.Z. Caldc.