Export control has a wider signi-france. It aims at seeing that Great Britain and France get all the rubber, tin, palm oil, copra and other colonial raw materials which they requite, and at the same time keeping lose The Singapore organization cannot be 100 per cent, efficient as a de weapon because Soviet la, for example, can buy rubber n in the (Netherlands Indies, export it to Vladivostok and perhaps via the Trans-railway.
All wartime departments in Singa-ore keep in close touch, through the Office, with the Ministry of amic Warfare in London. Information is exchanged between London and Singapore and the policy followed by the Straits Settlements Government is completely attuned to that of the Imperial Government in London.
Secrecy regarding important moves on the economic war front is as essential as with military, naval or air force operations. Not much, therefore, ds made public regarding fresh deve-Trade statistics are now din a very abbreviated form and
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