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White House Statement on the Appointment of Delegates to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs.

March 14, 1931

THE PRESIDENT HAS appointed the following as delegates on the part of the United States to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs to be held at Geneva, May 27, 1931.

MR. JOHN K. CALDWELL, Foreign Service officer of Class I, representative of the Secretary of State on Federal Narcotics Control Board for 5 years; representative of the United States at the last four annual sessions of the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee; representative of the United States at the Preliminary Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs held in London in October, 1930

MR. HARRY J. ANSLINGER, Commissioner of Narcotics

DR. W. L. TREADWAY, Chief of Bureau of Mental Hygiene, Public Health Service (in charge of the "Narcotic Farms" created by the Porter Bill)

THE HONORABLE SANBORN YOUNG Of California, chairman, California State Narcotic Commission, 1925-1931

Participation by this Government was authorized by Public Resolution 130, approved March 3, 1931 [46 Stat. 1516].

In view of his familiarity with this subject through attendance as the representative of this Government at the sessions of the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee and at the Preliminary Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs, held in London, Mr. Caldwell will be named Chairman of the delegation.

Note: The Conference met from May 27 to July 31, 1931, and produced a convention limiting the manufacture of specified drugs and controlling their movement through licenses.

Herbert Hoover, White House Statement on the Appointment of Delegates to the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211804

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