Any further communication should be addressed to:-
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
at the address given opposite.
The following letters and number should
be quoted:-
C.R.T. 3165/33.
raphic Address:
COLASTA, PARL, LONDON.
Telephone No.: Whitehall 5140.
COMMERCIAL RELATIONS AND TREATIES
DEPARTMENT,
BOARD OF TRADE,
GREAT GEORGE STREET,
112
LONDON, S.W.1.
G...
E 2 AUG 1933
21st August, 1933.
C. O. REGY
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Sir,
With reference to your letter of the 7th August
(No. 13702/33) regarding the extent to which the
Barcelona Convention and Statute on Freedom of Transit
applies to the import and export of arms, I am directed
by the Board of Trade to state that they agree with the
views expressed by the Foreign Office in paragraphs 3 and 4
of the letter (F.4231/16/10) addressed to you by that
Department on the 25th July.
I am to add that the statement contained in the
Board's letter of the 14th September, 1932, (C.R.T.3711/31),
to the effect that there are provisions in Articles 5
and 5 (3) of the Convention which take arms and similar
goods outside the scope of the Convention altogether,
was not intended to cover every case but was made to
illustrate the particular point that the Convention does
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office,
S.W. 1.