TERMS FOR DISARMING

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 92, 19 April 1932, Page 7

TERMS FOR DISARMING

French Demands Involve America. BRITISH INFLUENCE. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that France, as the price of her disarmament, has demanded that the United States shall abandon her traditional policy of the freedom of the seas and that instead there should be an enlargement of the | Briand-Kellogg Pact whereby the United I Spates should not trade with a State which the Council of the League of Nations had defined as an aggressor. The correspondent says it is understood that unless Britain favours the | French proposition the United States will refuse to countenance the project. It is known that the British Foreign Minister, Sir John Simon, again tried to persuade the Prime Minister of France, M. Tardieu, to reopen negotiations with Italy in order that both j should sign the naval agreement drafted j in London in 1930, which was rendered j abortive owing to France and Italy J declining to sign it. I The Disarmament Conference will j examine concrete proposals of the | French, American and Italian delega- i tions at Geneva to-day. j