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The State Department has also issued a license authorizing the exportation of twenty machine guns to Liberia. The Liberian Government purchased these guns
for ita own internal defense under a plan of which the Foreign Office is informed. Licenses authorizing the
exportation of ammunition for these guns will probably
be applied for in the near future. The Tiberim Coverment desires to ship these arms on ships of the American
West African Steamship Line.
These vessels are scheduled
to touch at Freetown en route to Monrovia.
The Embassy is now requested to ascertain whether the Foreign Office is willing to give assurances that these shipments of arms to Shanghai, Thailand and Liberia will not be detained or otherwise interfered with
while in British territory en route to their destination. I will appreciate your advices in the matter.
Yours ever,
(Signed) Herschel Johnson