DISARMAMENT PLANS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21133, 7 April 1934, Page 13

DISARMAMENT PLANS

C\SE l-'orc GUARANTEED CONVENTION nair: -u o-Kr ; \'. '■• now;- ; -.'' RUGBY. April 5. Reviewing the outlook for disarmament, with particular reference to Cue bureau meeting at Geneva on April 10. "The Times" saw; "The mow is undoubtedly proem* common that a ciistmction may and shouid oe made between giving the guarantee for the maintemmo j ilie exact positions established by th.e peace treaties am.: gu- mg _ •' guarantee for the maintenance ot a new international system based upon an armaments convention. "A general suarant.ee of security mu=t bo directed to the crossing ot a frontier or to some other act ot overt acgressiou when was or was not lustmcd. ami there may or may ■;ot "be doubt whether m fact the action of the country in question may properly be held to have constituted aggression. -In guaranteeing an armamen.s convention these doubts are unlilielv to arise. Observance of the am-o< ; d limitations is to be checKcci by a direct international commission, and tnere will only be a case for taking action if the commission has definitely reported that a particular State" has exceeded its permitted armaments. Furtncrmore, ti-m p'-esumotion is that m one case hostilities will have already broken .'.• L ;t before collective action lias OCoU taken, bat an infringement ot an armaments convention would not_ be t'io sam.o irreparable disaster, feat r'lono is a convincing argument m favour of a guaranteed convention. ••Another ha.rdiv less important point in British eyes is that a convention would stanc-Mor a guarantee of n'.'ust ir.e-.u-abtv be inseparable rrom toe t-u----visions of the peace treaties.