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arms, ammunition and implements of war which your
Government, in common with the other Governments of
the League of Nations, has adopted in connection with
the embargo on the exportation of arms which it has
put in effect in respect to Italy. Both of these lists
conform closely to the list prepared by the Committee
for the Regulation of the Trade in and Private and
State Manufactore of Arms and Implements of War. In
view of the fact that your Government has adopted such
a list in respect to exports from Great Britain to
Italy, I again venture to express the hope that it may
find it possible to adopt a similar list in respect to
China. Such action which would bring the procedure
of our two Governments into harmony would, I believe,
even if followed by our two Governments only, do much
to achieve the objectives of preventing the development
or the continuance in China of conditions of domestic
violence and of cooperating with the Chinese Government
in its efforts to maintain an effective control of the
import into China of arms, ammunition and implements
of war which both of our Governments desire to achieve.
Accept, Excellency, etc.
For the Secretary of State:
(Signed) R. WALTON MOORE.