UNDER CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 144, 20 June 1934, Page 7

UNDER CONTROL.

arms manufacture. American Proposals to League Committee. BRITISH PLAN COMMENDED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 11.30 a.m.) GENEVA, June 19. The American delegation on the League committee for the control of the manufacture of arms introduced important proposals. These include one that each nation must be responsible for tho arms and munitions manufactured in its territory, and that all orders from abroad or shipments must be notified to the Permanent ■ Disarmament Commission, while Govern- j ments must similarly notify orders placed with national arsenals or private firms. The proposals also contain .provisions for rearmament by instalments on the lines of Mr. Mac Donald's plan in cases of countries authorised to increase their armaments, and introduces the British practice of national control of manufacture of armaments by licensing, which so far Britain alone has adopted. South American Embargo. A British official wireless message states that the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Anthony Eden, answering questions in Parliament in regard to the proposed agreement for a general embargo on the export of arms to Bolivia and Paraguay, said that the Governments of 34 countries had announced that in principle they were prepared to agree to the imposition of this embargo. The Italian Government had, however, made its agreement conditional on agreement by the Japanese Government, and the latter has not yet given its formal agreement, although it had been explained that no export of arms had in fact been made from Japan to Bolivia or Paraguay. The formal coming into force of the embargo was accordingly for the moment delayed. The British Government was continuing to hold up tne issue of licenses for the export of arms to the two belligerents, but it was not prepared to give an undertaking that this unilateral action would be pursued indefinitely and in all circumstances.