Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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colour text file, PDF
Series Statement:
FO1093: Foreign Office: Permanent Under-Secretary's Department: Registered and Unregistered Papers FO1093-528
Content:
A file of correspondence and memoranda discussing the international trading and trafficking of guns and ammunition in the period after the Second World War. Subjects discussed in this file include the sale and shipping of arms to Israel; the American opposition to the sale of British arms in the United States of America and Canada; requests for armaments and ammunition from various Asian countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq; the British inability to meet these demands, and the consequent complications to foreign policy; and attempts to block or disrupt the illicit arms trade, including a list of items considered contraband
Note:
Document cover date: 17 January 1949 to 16 September 1949
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Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 23 May 2013
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Part of a digital collection titled "Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War: Intelligence, Strategy and Diplomacy" created from unpublished documents in the United Kingdom's National Archives. The primary source materials were digitized in full colour by the Taylor & Francis Group (Abingdon, England, 2015-16)
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Print manuscript version Arms Traffic (London : Foreign Office, 17 January 1949 to 16 September 1949)
Language:
English
