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CONFERENCE OP' PRODUCING NATIONS. UNITED STATES’S UNENVIABLE RECORD. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. \ NEW YORK, September 50. j (Received Oct. 1, at 11.5 p.m.) ) The New York Times’s Washington cor- ; respondent states that Mr Stephen Porter,' chairman of the House Committee of Foreign Affairs, following a conference with President Harding, at which they discussed the opium situation of the world, announced that immediately after re-convening Congress he would introduce a resolution asking for a conference of all nations producing opium. It is understood that the investigation conducted by the committee, composed of Messrs C.)E. Hughes, A. W. Mellon, and H. C. Hoover of the United States Cabinet, found that the United States is the greatest per capita consumer of drugs in the world. As a result of investigation, President Harding has decided to open the way to hold a conference of nations to discuss this question.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18674, 2 October 1922, Page 5
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