DISARMAMENT ISSUES
PROPOSALS BY BRITAIN
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, 28th. January. The British proposals for expediting the work of the Disarmament Conference, which -were disclosed yesterday to the President of the Conference and to the delegates representing the United States, France, Germany, and Italy, are regarded hero as indicating a determination to press forward the issues before the Conference and to reach early decisions. It is hoped that the replies of the Powers named will be received in time to enable the British suggestion fo be considered by the Bureau of the Conference next week. As already indicated, it is suggested that discussion be divided into two main heads—political questions which have a bearing on security and purely disarmanient questions. The political questions cover general principles, and it is suggested that it should be the aim of the Bureau to submit to the General Committee which will meet on 2nd February a Convention giving e£ect to them. These general principles are as follows:— (1) Affirmation by European Powers that they will in no case resort to force. (2) Continental European States should seek to work out regional security agreements. (3) Application of the principle . that limitations on armaments of defeated States shall be contained in the same Disarmament "Convention as that which will define the limitation on armaments of others and shall replace Part 5 of the Treaty of Versailles which at present limits Germany's arms and armed forces. (4) The Convention to last for the same period and to be subject to the same measure of revision to' all its signatories. (5) Embodiment in the Convention. as regards war material of the 'principle of qualitative equality and provision for the realisation of such l equality i£ not immediately after its j entry into force then by specified stages. Continental States should consider a reduction of their armies to.uniform short service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 7
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