CO129-560-16 Traffic of arms to China 11-11-1937 - 1-1-1938 — Page 71

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Extract from Conclusions of Cabinet Meeting held on the

17th November, 1937.

(b) That applications by private firms for licences

for export of war material to China and Japan

should be dealt with as hitherto, and that a

policy of "masterly inactivity" should be

maintained as long as possible in regard to them:

(c)

That sales of surplus Government war material

to China' and Japan should not be permitted while

the present hostilities lasted.