Need of Preserving Uniform Action by the League London, May 2
In the House of Commons to-dai Mr. Edwin Serymgeour (Independ-asked whether the British representatives in the Opium Committee of the League of Nations were pursuing the considered policy of the Government, in opposing the efforts of the Italian representative to prevent the Opium Control Board from being made independent of the League and representative only of the interested Governments.
The Foreign. Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, in reply, expressced the opinion that the hon, member had misinterpreted what had occurred.
The point at issue, he declared, was the relation of the secretariat of the Opium Control Board to the neeretariat of the League of Ni tions.
In taking a line opposed to their! Italian colleague, the Foreign Secretary continued, the British representative and some other bers of the Opium Advisory Committee had acted in the belief that the views they had submitted gave effect to the intentions and pro visions of the Opium Convention. Reuter,
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