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7. If a Channel Tunnel were available for road traffic, we might well find that the advocacy now being given in international transport meetings to the view of the "Freedom of the Road" carried embarrassing practical implications for us. Our present Carriers' Licensing system is not conducive to "Freedom of the Road," but if we had a Channel Road Tunnel we should have to amend our "legislation or we should be accused of deliberately preventing traffic using the
Tunnel.
8. I make no comment on any influence the Tunnel might exercise on the flow of imports and exports, which is not my primary concern, beyond saying that I know of no transport hindrances to our exports to the Continent.
Ministry of Transport, W. 1,
June, 1949.
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