THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Poppy Talk

Dissentior, altercation, prevarication, ire and other manifestations of temper uncontrolled were the order of several days' poppy talk in the halls of the League of Nations at Geneva, where some Nations of the world continued their long conference on the opium question (TIME, Dec. 22).

The nations that were most interested in the opium subject were the U. S., Britain, France, the Netherlands. The reason for this is not remote; the U. S. has the Philippines, Britain has India, France has large interests in the Orient, the Netherlands administer an empire in...

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