BRITISH PLEDGE ON GERM WAR
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 3. Britain told Russia today she will never wage gas or germ warfare except in reprisal. In a Note delivered to Moscow, Britain denied Soviet charges that the recent Paris treaties on German rearmament violated the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of these weapons. Similar replies were sent by the other signatories of the Paris treaties whom Russia has accused of breaking the protocol—France, Italy, and the Benelux countries. The British Note says that when the protocol was ratified Russia herself joined Britain in reserving the “right to retaliate in kind against any Power which should first use such weapons against them.” Both countries “thus reserved the right to manufacture and stock such weapons,” the British Note states. Fear of not the Geneva Protocol, prevented gas and germ weapons being used in the last war, the British Note asserts.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27576, 5 February 1955, Page 7
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