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drawn to the penultimate paragraph
of the Board of Trade letter, No. 3711/31
of the 14th September, 1952, a copy of which
was sent to the Foreign Office.
2. Article 5 of the Statute
Freedom of Transit makes it clear
on
that no Contracting State is bound to
afford transit for arms
arus! If their
importation is prohibited on the ground
of public security, or
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measures
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taken in pursuance
of general International Conventions
relating to their transit, export, or import;
and it will appear
var eävi sed
that to this extent only are the export
and import of arms excluded from the scope
of the Statute.
3.
A copy of this letter is being sent to
the Board of Trade.
I am, etc.
(Signed) H R. COWELL
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