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• correspondence and reports relating to internees that the Protecting Powers, the ICRC, orany other organization assisting the internees exchange either with their own delegates orwith the parties to the conflict. 405These provisions in no way detract from the right of any party to the conflict to arrangeother means of transport if it should so prefer, nor preclude the granting of safe-conducts, undermutually agreed conditions, to such means of transport. 406The costs occasioned by the use of such means of transport shall be borne, in proportionto the importance of the shipments, by the parties to the conflict whose nationals are benefitedthereby. 407 Expenses in setting up the special transport system are not specifically addressed bythe GC, and presumably would be addressed by an agreement between the body that takes theinitiative in establishing the system and the Powers concerned. 40810.23.6 Censorship and Security Review of Internee Correspondence and Shipments.The Detaining Power may examine and censor all communications sent to or by internees,including correspondence, telegrams, parcels, newspapers, periodicals, and books, with a view todeleting or confiscating matter prejudicial to its military security. 409 The Detaining Power’sgeneral right to conduct censorship is an implicit assumption in the GC. 410 Internees’405 GC art. 111 (“Such transport may also be used to convey: (a) correspondence, lists and reports exchangedbetween the Central Information Agency referred to in Article 140 and the National Bureaux referred to in Article136; (b) correspondence and reports relating to internees which the Protecting Powers, the International Committeeof the Red Cross or any other organization assisting the internees exchange either with their own delegates or withthe Parties to the conflict.”).406 GC art. 111 (“These provisions in no way detract from the right of any Party to the conflict to arrange othermeans of transport if it should so prefer, nor preclude the granting of safe-conducts, under mutually agreedconditions, to such means of transport.”).407 GC art. 111 (“The costs occasioned by the use of such means of transport shall be borne, in proportion to theimportance of the shipments, by the Parties to the conflict whose nationals are benefited thereby.”).408 See GC COMMENTARY 468 (“This paragraph deals with the expenditure involved in the use of special transportbut not the expenditure incurred in setting up the special transport system. On this latter point, the Convention saysnothing that is not contained in paragraph 1 of this Article-i.e., that the Contracting Powers will make every effort toprocure the means of transport. It is therefore to be supposed that these expenses will be covered by agreementbetween the body which takes the initiative in the matter and the Power concerned.”).409 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 319b (“The Detaining Power may examine and censor all communicationssent to or by internees, including correspondence and telegrams (GC, art. 107; par. 314 herein) and relief shipments(GC, art, 108; par. 315 herein) with a view to deleting matter prejudicial to its military security.”).410 II-A FINAL RECORD OF THE DIPLOMATIC CONFERENCE OF GENEVA OF 1949 839-40 (“It was suggested by oneDelegation that it would be desirable specifically to reserve the right of censorship in this Article, particularly inview of the insertion at Stockholm of the words ‘and without alteration’. The view of the Committee generally wasthat to state a reservation on one Article might make it necessary to state a reserve on several others, since the firstinsertion would have created doubt as to the general right of censorship which otherwise is implicit in theConvention. It was generally accepted that a duty to transmit requests and complaints necessarily implied a right toread the documents in question to see whether they were in fact requests and complaints. Moreover, since there wasno obligation to transmit without alteration a matter which was not a complaint and not a request, there could be nobreach of the Convention if such matter were deleted from communications to representatives, for example, of theProtecting Power.”).702