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Office should submit their views to the Cabinet Committee on Policy in sufficient time for their con-- sideration before the Recess and the Cabinet Committee should be empowered, without further reference to the Cabinet unless such a course should seem to them to be necessary, to draft instructions for the guidance of the British Representative when this question comes up for considera- tion by the Assembly in Geneva:

(e) As regards the Private Manufacture

of Arms, to approve the Report of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence, attached as Appendix II to C.P.-253 (28)) as the basis of the instructions of the British Representative at Geneva when this Convention comes up for consideration, subject to the following:-

(1) Further consideration by the

Cabinet Committee on Policy of the 3rd, 4th and 5th paragraphs of the Preamble on which the First Lord of the Admiralty expressed some doubts:

(ii) That the Convention should not

be ratified by His Majesty's Gov ernment in Great Britain until the other countries

which are the principal

producers of arms, ammunition and implements of war have ratified.

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