OPY
NT
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
WASHINGTON.
10th February, 1936.
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Excellency,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
of Your Excellency's note of January 31, 1936, with
further reference to the procedures which our two
Governments are following in respect to the export
of aircraft to China. I note that your Government does
not feel that bilateral action in respect to the
enumeration of arms, ammunition and implements of war
affecting the United States and Great Britain only,
would provide a satisfactory solution of the difficulties
which have been the subject of recent correspondence
between us. In this connexion, I enclose, for your
information, two copies of Laws and Regulations
Administered by the Secretary of State Governing the
International Traffic in Arms, Ammunition, and Implements
I invite your attention particularly to
Section VII of this pamphlet.
of War.
You will note that the
arms, ammunition and implements of war enumerated in
Categories III and V of the President's Proclamation of
September 25, 1935, are almost identical with the
enumeration contained in Category III in the list of
His Excellency
The Honorable Sir Ronald Lindsay,
P.C., G.C.M. G., K. C. B., C.V.O.,
British Ambassador.
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