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The proposed asswance
impeding the
is only valid
if / onward transmission to China...k is understood to be subject to all sorts of reservations not mentioned by the R.O., since in fact there have been all lurids of impediments placed
in the way of the transmission of war material to China,
the latest of
which is that to which the 7.0. have
agreed in (46) on 53846/29 (Ames_ icon aeroplane service to convey aircraft- material to Loiwing, via Hong Kong). It is also a long-standing arrangement- that the expert as
re-export of arms
from Hong Kong to non
China is not allowed.
m.treaty ports in
Although the Buma Office is being
asked whether Buma agrees to the
assurance
we
IT.K. r's.s. do
The
مسم
are not asked whether
but merely to bring to their notice the fact that # has been asked for. What the point of this can be is not at all clear, but it is possibly connected with The contraband regulations.
I should be inclined to reply to the f.o. That it is assumed, unless existing practice is to be reversed, that the araw- is subject to vasions qualifications and say that it is proposed,
ance
assu
subject
to
Fo. concurrence, to point this out to The Two Gous, as
Foo agree
drafted
d as
to tel beme
in draft herewith
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