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Desires the 6.0. consider repeating to you,
suggestion that orders for industrial plans should, as far as possible, be placed in this country.
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Submit's further obsons.
No. (10) gives a full exposition of the FO news
on this matter.
In the first place there is not
nothing
to prevent
the private commercial export of explosives from
HAL. to China on purely legal grounds,
from the
arms
since (a)
legal point of view the export of ordinary
& munitions is on a di
that of ussels of war
different footing from
aircraft, 9
4(6)
& assembled
Whilst a neutral Govt.
may not itself export
amus & munitions to a belligerent power, it is
not bound to fortid
acting
in a
such export by it nationals
pinly private commerial capacity.
As far as political considerations are concerned
the FO wld. not
а
normally agree to the
prohibiting
of the export of ordinay munitions to belligerents
ид
since this tends to compromise the attitude of H. M.6.
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