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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 18 februar 1935 / Time Line February 18, 1935

17. Februar 1935, 19. Februar 1935

02/18/1935
Våbenhandel, Storbritannien
Den engelske undersøgelseskommission, The Royal Commission on the Private Manifacture of and Trading in Arms, nedsættes med følgende formål:

The Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms was set up on February 18th 1935 with the following Terms of Reference:

1. "To consider and report upon the practicability and desirability (both from the national and international point of view) of the adoption (a) by the United Kingdom along, (b) by the United Kingdom in conjunction with the other countries of the world, of a prohibition of private manufacture of and trade in arms and munitions of war, and the institution of a stats monopoly of such manufacture and trade.
2. To consider and report whether there are any steps which can usefully be taken to remove or minimize the kinds of objections to which private Manufacture is stated in Article 8/5/ of the Covenant of the League of Nations to be open.
3. To examine the present arrangements in force in the United Kingdom relative to the control of the export trade in arms and munitions of war, and to report whether these arrangements require revision, and, if so, in what direction."

Kilde: Verbatim Summary of the Evidence presented by the Union of Democratic Control to the Royal Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms 17 - 18 July 1935. - London : the Union of Democratic Control. [1935] Introduction.
Litteratur: Laursen Svend: Rustningsindustrien : Staternes kontrol med Vaabenhandel og Vaabenproduktion.
- København : Institut for Historie og Samfundsøkonomi, 1938. - 93 s.
Report [of the] Royal Commission on the private manufacture of and trading in arms (1935-46). 1936.

02/18/1935

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