Applications To Be Scrutinised
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, June 6. The Foreign Office said today that all applications for licences by British exporters to sell to China would be closely scrutinised with a view to ensuring that exports would not contribute to the Chinese military strength. The spokesman denied reports that Britain’s decision to allow its colonial territories of Malaya and Singapore to sell rubber to China marked a deliberate policy to sell goods of potential military value to the Communist power.
“Our policy is confined to the extended use of the so-called ‘exceptions procedure’ for goods not controlled for the Soviet bloc,” he said.
“The policy will only be applied exports which, in the view of the British Government, have no strategic significance,” the sookesman said.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27989, 8 June 1956, Page 11
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