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(Title Page) TH? PRIVATE MANUFACTURE OF ARHAJIKNT8 * Mllp NOEL-BAKER LeW СемеН Profeaaor of international Relatione in the tolvereity of London UW Follow of King's College, Cambridge liMher of tbo Erltiah ^legation to the Ромо Conference, 1919 Parlianentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affaire, 1929-1931 Personal Assistant to the Preoident of the Lloanu»ent Conference, 1932-1933 *ith e Prefatory Kota by VZ3CCUHT CECIL ЮЯ TURK OXFORD UNIVERSITr PRESS 1937 EVASION OF nrmVAIlOllAL OBLIGATIONS, pp 203-305 6. No leea striking is the following account given in the Quarterly Report of the Statistical Department of the Ucandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget. It reads as follows i "Before the war the manufacture of war notarial at Boforo was stimulated mainly by naval building in Sweden, to til quite reoent years Swedish war material, apart from consignments to the neighbouring Scandinavian countries, hod been exported only on a minor scale, the reduction of armaments In Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries has, however, ooapelled the Boforo Ccapany to soak outlets on the world market. It was in 1920 that this change took place, todor the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles the manufacture of war material at Krupp'g had been almost completely abandoned, and the «port of arms and munitions from Germany had been entirely prohibited. In that year Bofors entered into an agreement with Krupp'e, whereby the Swedish company acquired Xrupp'e designs, methods of manufeoture and the benefit of their experience during