The Archive · 1938

To Far East

Netherlands E. Indies Top List of Buyers of Planes Japan Next

Washington, July 22.

For the first time since the creation of the Arms and Munitions Exports Control Bureau, the State Department published statistics not only of export licences granted last month but also the actual exports effected.

The figures show that the United States remains the largest furnisher of planes to the entire world. particularly China, Japan and the Netherlands East Indies, Licences for the export of arms and planes granted in June reached a figure of US$7,761,289.

The Netherlands East Indies w: the chief purchaser with $4,060 worth of planes. followed by Japan with $1,710,049, China with $1.236,020, and Soviet Russia with $157,710.

Furthermore, exports of airplane engines to Holland totalled $127.181

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account