893.114 Narcotics/1453: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in China ( Johnson )

19. Your despatch No. 149, December 27.47 If you have not already done so

(1)
Please submit your comment on this proposal which purports to preclude American citizens from dealing in and American physicians, dentists and hospitals from importing not only drugs covered by the Narcotics Limitation Convention of 193148 but also strychnine.
(2)
Report the attitude adopted in regard to the matter by other governments which enjoy extraterritoriality.
(3)
Request the American Consul General at Shanghai to report fully to the Department the probable effect on American commercial and professional interests and the attitude of those interests toward the proposal.
(4)
Endeavor to ascertain and report why it is proposed to limit strychnine in the manner outlined.

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