The Archive · 1940

Prohibited Articles

Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Liberal member for Wolverhampton. East Division, in the House of Commons yesterday asked if the Government would publish the full terms, including the schedule of agreement with Japan, regarding the closure of the Burma road.

Mr. R. A. Butler, Under: Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, replied that all Lord Halifax (the Foreign Secretary) could add to Mr. Winston Churchill's statement of July 18, was the list of categories subject to temporary_prohibition on the road, namely: iten, steel, railway track, rolling stock, motor vans and lorries and parts thereof, arms ammunition and military explosives.—Reuter.

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