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Excellency:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

365

WASHINGTON

January 10, 1935

I have the honor to acknowledge the

receipt of your note No. 396 of December 12, 1934,

concerning the procedure in force in Great

Britain in regard to the control of the

exportation of arms to China. I am pleased to

note that this procedure conforms in its essential

features to the procedure which this Government

has followed since March 4, 1922.

I have noted the difference which

exists between the practice of your Government

and the practice of this Government in connection

with the definition of military aircraft.

Although I appreciate the force of the reasons

which you adduce in support of the less

stringent definition which has been adopted by

your Government, I feel that the more stringent

definition which we have adopted is more

consistent with the objective of preventing the

development or the continuance in China of

conditions of domestic violence and of

cooperating with the Chinese Government in its

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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