NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 32, 8 February 1932, Page 9

NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR

(British Official Wireless.)

BUGBY, sth February. The Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir John Simon, cabled Mr. Andrew Mellon, the new United States Ambassador to London, offering warm and most cordial congratulations on his appointment and assuring him of a hearty welcome.

of tho Disarmament Congress at the Trocadero in November. We have our Hitlerians too; it is useless to deny tho fact. lam always ready to defend Franco whenever I fool that her rights are being encroached npon. But I do not want to bo associated with those odious bands of Zenophobes, "who do not hesitate to insult the most illustrious foreigners; ill-bred individuals who do not even stop at making attacks upon' women. They do not represent Franco. The French people, particularly the pacifist provincials, do not approve of them. For somo time now this nationalistic movemont has been growing in force. It can be rendered powerless just as other movements of its kind have been in tho past, i£ only tho French Bepublicans and pacifists will join hands. This is what is gradually taking place and it is well tha/t it is ko, for in nationalistic circles it is forbidden to pronounce the word "disarmament."

I have tried to give as clear a picture as possible of the disarmament situation in France. In substance it is this: at least three-quarters of the members of tho'French Chamber of Deputies and the people of France are in favour of a, policy1 of disarmament based upon the organisation of an international armed force which shall guarantee protection to nil nalions and tho authority over which shall be placed in the hands of the League of Nations.