RETICENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 113, 16 May 1933, Page 7

RETICENCE.

Sir John Simon and Geneva Deadlock. COMMONS QUESTIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 1 p.m.) EUGBY, May 15. Questioned in .the House of Commons regarding the Disarmament Conference, the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, referred to the postponement of the meeting of the General Commission owing to the recall of the German delegate to Berlin, and said that in the circumstances he preferred to make no statement at the present juncture.

Asked if he would make an early statement in the House on the situation to prevent alarmist rumours being spread, Sir John said that if a situation arose which called for a statement it would be made. He was later asked whether his attention has been drawn to the declaration of the German Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, implying Germany s intention to rearm, thereby breaking the Versailles Treaty. Sir John said that he had seen an article but could make no further statement, pending a resumption of the General Commission. Further asked whether the speech made by Viscount Hailsham in the House of Lords represented the views of the Cabinet, the Foreign Secretary said he had no reason to hesitate to answer, but he preferred to have the question on paper in the ordinary way.