DISARMAMENT PLANS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 5

DISARMAMENT PLANS.

THE CONFERENCE TO RESUME. ANGLO-FRENCH DISCUSSIONS. (United Press Association—Copyright). LONDON, September 14. Mr Ramsay MacDonald (the Prime Minister), who is at Lossiemouth, Scotland, is expected to return to London on Sunday. On Monday morning he will be visited by Mr Norman Davis (United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference), who during his visit to London will also discuss cer-: tain questions connected with the work of the Disarmament Conference with its president (Mr Arthur Henderson). Mr Davis will leave London for Paris next week, and will probably take part in the later stages of the AngloFrench disarmament conversations there. The British Government will be represented at these conversations which begin on Monday by the UnderSecretary for Foreign Affairs, Captain Anthony Eden, who will be accompanied by Lord Cadogan. They are expected to leave London on Sunday. The need for a clear understanding between the two countries on certain aspects of disarmament before the meetings of the Conference.are resumed at Geneva is fully recognised here and it is anticipated that in next week's conversations the question of the international control of armaments will receive particular action. Full details of the French proposals for effecting such control are not yet known, and the talks, will to'a large e'xtent, be explanatory. At their conclusion Captain Eden will probably return to 'London to report before proceeding to Geneva, where the League Council will meet on September 22.

"TRIAL PERIOD" PLAN. ACCORD ALARMS GERMANY. LONDON, September 14. Tlxe Paris correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian'' says that the greatest importance is attached in France to Monday's disarmament talks. Captain Eden is expected to present a revised version of the British Draft Convention. It is understood that Britain has accepted the French proposals for the control and inspection of arms, including the "trial period" proposal but is seeking a definite French undertaking to disarm as soon as the "trial" has proved satisfactory. Messages from Berlin indicate that Germany is alarmed at the possibility of such an Anglo-French compromise.