FUTURE OF ARMS CONFERENCE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21177, 30 May 1934, Page 11

FUTURE OF ARMS CONFERENCE

I PRESIDENT'S PLEA j SUPPORT FROM FRENCH [ FOREIGN MINISTER j __ i (t'SITED VHK3S ASSOCIATION— »T ELECTRIC I TELEGRAPH—COPTIUGnT.) j (Received May 29, 5.5 p.m.) J LONDON, May 28. j The future of the Disarmament Conference will be determined at a meeting of the General Commission at Geneva to-morrow. The meeting of the bureau to-day was brief. Mr Arthur Henderson (president), after reading a short statement on the contents of the communications between the principal European powers during recent months, expressed the hope that the bureau would unanimously recommend to the general commission that the gravity of the situation commanded more than ever an unflagging determination to pursue their efforts toward securing a convention in accordance with the mandate given to the conference. M. Louis Barthou (France), the only other speaker, supported Mr Henderson and urged that however difficult the task the conference should not consider its work finished. ! The speeches at the meeting to- | morrow will be broadcast. | CONFERENCE MAY DIVIDE j deceived May 29, .0.20 p.m.) ' GENEVA, May 29. ! The brevity of the meeting of the I bureau caused surprise. It is be- ' licved that the conference may ! divide after the speeches to-day, one I section discussing security and the I other disarmament. Alternatively, j the General Commission may adIjourn until the week-end.