The Archive · 1926

Britain's Clean Slate

May I repeat again as I have done so often during the Inst two years. The opium and narcotic problem is too big, and too important to justify any partisan spirit. Hon-four to whom honour is due, Not]

pound of opium has been export ed from India to China since the end of 1913, and not an ounce of British narestie drugs has been seized in China since 1928, What lever the past has been the present is clean, There are always two sides to any form of illicit traffic, the buyer as well as the seller. Bath are equally culpable.

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