6360/47.
IMPORTANT.
Dear Allen,
Downing Street,
9
June,1933.
156
30th kay.
7th June.
With reference to the letter from this office
No.6360/38 of the 18th May regarding the sale of
Australian arms to China, I enolo se copies of two
further letters from Shedden on the subject.
The second letter raises a point on which
we should be grateful for Foreign Office advice. So
far as we are aware, the question arese here only in
an isolated case (before the recent armistice in North
China) when permission was sought for the sale of an
instrument of war from Government stocks to Japan and
the application was refused. we do not know the precise
reasons for the decision in that case, but it may have
been because the conditions were no longer those
obtaining at the date of our telegram No.76 of the
11th August 1952 (Dominions office letter 6360/21 of
the 12th August,1932) when hostilities had ceased
between
R.H.8.ALLEN, ESQ.