§ 1. Colonel DAYasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs which members of the Council of the League of Nations have ratified the suggestion that a central board should be established to assess and ration the trade in derivative drugs?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir Austen Chamberlain)The appointment of a permanent central board to "watch the course of the international trade" in opium and other dangerous drugs is provided for in Chapter VI, Articles 19 to 27, of the Geneva Opium Convention of 1925. A ratification of that Convention has been deposited on behalf of His Majesty covering all parts of the British Empire other than Canada and the Irish Free State. Of the other States at present members of the Council only France and Poland have ratified.