PEACE COMMISSION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 47, 25 February 1911, Page 5

PEACE COMMISSION.

UNITED STATES PROPOSAL. QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.

SIR E. GREY'S REPLY., By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright. (Received February 25, 9 a.m.) CONDON, 24th February. Replying in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. V. D. Pirie, Liberal ■ member for Aberdeen North, the Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, said tho Government had officially welcomed tha resolution of tho United States Congress concerning the appointment of a Peace Commission. Sir Edward also promised tho friendliest consideration to any defmite^scheme that might bo brought forward.. [Last year a resolution was passed by the United States Congress as follows: — That a Commission of five members be appointed by tho President of the United States to consider tho expediency of utilising existing international agencies for tho purpose of limiting the armaments of the nations of tho world by international agreement, and of constituting the combined navie3 of the world an international force for the preservation of international peace, and to consider and report upon any other means to diminish the expenditures of Governments for military purposes, and to lessen the probabilities of war."] DISARMAMENT. MOTION REJECTED BY FRENCH CHAMBER. m^ «, PA RIS» 24th February. I The Chamber of Deputies, by 352 [ votes to 189, rejected a- motion inviting j the Government to initiate negotiations with a view to disarmament. RADICAL RESOLUTION. LIMITATION~QUESTION. (Received February 25, 11 a.m.) PARIS, 24th February. The Chamber of Deputies, by 447 votes to 56, adopted a Radical resolution inviting the Government, in cooperation with friends and allies, to secure discussion at the next Hague Conference of the question of the limitation of armaments.