ARMS PROPOSAL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20807, 17 March 1933, Page 11

ARMS PROPOSAL.

♦—— MR MACDONALD'S PLAN. CUTS IN ALL BRANCHES TO BE SUGGESTED. (BRITISH OFPrCUL WIKELBSS.) RUGBY, March M A vigorous effort ia being ma.de by tbe British Ministers at Geneva to achieve early and effective results from the Disarmament Conference, and at tomorrow's meeting of the General Commission the Prime Minister (Mr Earnsay Mac Donald) will make an important pronouncement. In his speech he will, outline the draft Disarmament Convention, which will later bo circulated among all the delegations, and it will bo found to include detailed and comprehensive proposals covering every phase of disarmament. The proposed treaty, which would be transitional, covering a five-years period, will contain definite figures and proposals relating to naval, military, and air disarmament. It will also deal with the question of security. The treaty will, of necessity, eall for compromises between the different national viewpoints, but it is felt that tlie compromises, and even the substantial sacrifices that they may involve, woulvi be justified if the conference was saved an important step achieved in the task of organising peace. MEETING WITH MUSSOLINI. BRITISH DELEGATES WILL VISIT ROME. LONDON, March 15. The Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay Mac Donald) and Sir John Simon (Foreign Secretary) will visit Signor Mussolini at Bomo on March 18. The Geneva correspondent of "The Times" says the real object of Mr Ramsay Mac Donald's visit to Rome is to seek Bignor Mussolini's collaboration in a carefully conceived policy for restoring peace to troubled Europe, but he has not the slightest intention of leaving France out in the cold.—"The Times" Cables.