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14
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92596/32 attached)
•*. (No. 18 on this file)
Mr Cowell.
(I attach a Note by Mr Crossette-Thambiah who
was recently attached to the Colonial Office).
With regard to the penultimate paragraph of
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@ontracting State
the Board of Trade's letter of 14/9/32 and to the last
sentence of the Foreign Office's letter of 11/5/33
perusal of article 5 of the Statute on Freedom of Tran-
sit makes it clear, I think, that no
is bound to afford transit for arms if their importation
is prohibited on the ground of public security, or if
measures have been taken, in pursuance of geheral inter-
national Conventions, relating to their transit, export, or import. To this extent only it would appear that the export and import of arms are excluded hometty scope of the Statute; and ini the cricumstances this wee had better lake us the pmit with the FA and The 3. of T. 17/6/33
B.
Ft. Druncan.
In reply to 20 say that, while the particular
transaction appears to have fallen through,
we should be glad to learn precisely the grounds
on which .0. nold that the arcelona Convention
expressly excludes the export and import of
arms from the scope of the Convent ion
, saying
that we are advised as in r Juncan's minute.
Mr Duncan to see draft.
19
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To. 7.
2/2.39.)
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28. ansand.
20/10/13
13/13.6
20/4/33