Re: [MV] Re: MV's in mainland China -Reply
WIDD-Jame (RiceJ@silltcmd-smtp.army.mil)
Tue, 03 Nov 1998 10:44:27 -0600
True Lend-Lease, as in WWII, material cannot be returned to the US.
That was part of the stipulaton during WWII when the treaty/agreement
was developed and implemented. For fifty plus years, this has been the
case. This is particularly troublesome with small arms. Before the
president's unconstitutional one man ban of reimports, the problems was
identifying whether the country they were coming from had received
them via lend lease or via military aid purchases (at pennies on the dollar
or in trade for stationing rights). If they were lend lease, reimport was
not possible. If they were purcahsed or via miiltary aid, they could be
reimported. Usually, appropriate documentation is no longer available in
either the US or the other country to conclusively prove they were not
given away, therefore, they typically cannot be reimported.
The point is moot since the President decided we the people no longer
need these weapons and therefore banned their further import without
allowing us a voice in the matter.
Jim Rice
>>> "Steven P. Allen" <spallen@rolemail.ccis.edu> 11/03/98 09:51am >>>
At 10:04 AM 11/3/98 EST, Wolfman447@aol.com wrote:
>Too bad, really. I would like to see more historic MV's come home.
Maybe in
>the future the "ban" will be reconsidered.
Are we sure the ban isn't only on equipment going TO China and not on
returning stuff? That's the way I've seen it explained, anyway.
Steve Allen
Rolla, MO
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