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officers are stationed, cannot be made available,

I feel obliged to accept the validity of the Board of

Trade's arguments for refusing to provide this

information.

Nevertheless, it seems that a great deal

of the other information, including changes in various

countries' exchange and import control regulations,

is already available to the Corporation, either

directly through the Commerce and Industry Department

The Department's

or through its offices overseas, particularly in London

In this connexion, the Export Service Bulletins and the

Board of Trade Journal contain inform tion which I

would have thought likely to have been particularly

valuable to the Corporation.

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