500.A15A4 General Committee (Arms)/6: Telegram
The American Delegate ( Wilson ) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 2—2:25 p.m.]
917. 1. Committee on Manufacture of and Trade in Arms met this afternoon in public session and adopted the articles referred to in my 914, June 28, 1 p.m.42
2. The Venezuelan representative43 while accepting the articles suggested an interpretation of article D whereby export licenses could be issued only after a corresponding import license had been issued by the importing country.
3. The British emphasized the aspects of national control and equality of treatment of state and private manufacture whereas the French, Czechs and Poles emphasized those of international control. I underlined the simplicity and practicability of the plan.
4. The draft articles were accepted unanimously and practically every speaker expressed appreciation of the initiative of the American delegation in offering an acceptable basis for the solution of this subject.
5. The Committee adjourned without any reference to future sessions although privately Komarnicki44 expressed his intention of reconvening the Committee in September.