If the existing list of "arms,
 
ammunition and implements of war", the
 
export of which to belligerent countries
 
is no prohibited by the President's
 
Proclamation of September 5th, were to be
 
amended and any articles were to be
 
omitted, the articles which His Majesty's
 
Government would be most interested in
 
seeing excluded would be the following:-
 
CATEGORY I
 
       (3) Gun liners.
 
       (4) Small arms ammunition. Shell bodies.
 
CATEGORY II
 
       Articles usd for naval purposes, more
particularly mines.
 
CATEGORY III and
CATEGORY V
 
       Aircraft of all kinds including engines, 
individual component parts of aircraft engines, 
aeronautical equipment and instruments normally
supplied with complete aeroplanes.
 
CATEGORY VII
 
       (1) and (2). Chemicals not made up finally
into explosives and charges.
 
 
               BRITISH EMBASSY,
 
                         WASHINGTON D.C.
 
                                   October 2nd 1939