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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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92596/32.

measures

hantera

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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