ARMS TANGLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 238, 7 October 1932, Page 7

ARMS TANGLE.

POWERS ADAMANT. No Hope of Conference Being Held in London. A BISHOP ON WORLD'S ILLS. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, October 6. The "Daily Telegraph" says no hope is entertained of arranging the proposed Four-Power Arms Conference in London. The attitude of Paris and Berlin has sealed its fate. It might be possible to induce Germany to return to the fold by promising a drastic cut in armaments, says the correspondent, but France will not agree without guarantees of security, which neither Britain nor the United States is prepared to offer. The French Prime Minister, M. Herriot, also, is' adamant in demanding international control of armaments by commissions of the League of Nations. "We have to acknowledge that th(j Disarmament Conference at Geneva failed, which we must count as a world disaster of the first magnitude," said the Bishop of Birmingham. Dr. E. W. Barnes, speaking in his diocese. "The whole social and political situation of the civilised world is disquieting," continued the bishop. "Trade I stagnation continues and unemployment is increasing. Millions of embittered people believed the period of depression would have ended except for the world', political uncertainty and the fear that the threat of rearmament will end in war. "America will not remit the debts due to her so long as Europe is preparing for war, yet so long as those debts are being paid there must be financial disorder. The world needs disarmament, international good will and the abolition of international debts for a return of prosperity."