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Disarmament Attitude Rouses Interest. POINTS TO BE CLEARED UP. (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, May 17. Herr Hitler's speech in the Reichstag is being closely studied in political circles. Particular interest is directed to the passages bearing on disarmament, because it i 3 recognised that the future of the Geneva Conference depends to a large extent on Germany's attitude towards the proposal for standardisation of the Continental armies. Herr Hitler did not disclose in detail the attitude which the German delegate will take up when the General Committee resumes. Referring to the British draft convention, however, he is reported to have said that he saw in Mr. MacDonald's plan a possible starting point for a solution to the disarmament question, but it must demand 110 destruction of the existing defence system without conceding at least qualitative equality. Germany was ready to regard the five-year transitional period as adequate for the re-establishment of national security, provided that at the end of that period Germany was on an equal footing with the other nations. Fuller disclosures of Germany's attitude are expected when the discussions are resumed at Geneva*
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 115, 18 May 1933, Page 7
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