TO ACHIEVE RESULTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 11

TO ACHIEVE RESULTS

MIXISTEBS AT GENEVA"

DISARMAMENT CONVENTION

MR. MACDONALD'S DRAFT,

(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 16, 11 a.m.) ' RUGBY, March 15.

A vigorous effort is being mada by the British Ministers at Geneva to achieve early effective . results from the Disarmament Conference and at tomorrow's meeting of the General Commission Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald will make an important pronouncement. In the course'of his speech he will outline a draft Disarmament Convention, embodying the work already done by the Conference and embracing certain, elements drawn from the plans laid before the Conference by other delegations as well as. various British suggestions.' The text of this pro- , posed Disarmament Treaty will later ! be. circulated to all delegations, and it will be found to include-«detailed and comprehensive proposals covering every phase of disarmament.

!. The proposed Treaty, which "will b8 | transitional, covering a five years' period, will contain definite figures and proposals relating to naval, military, and air disarmament in regard to material and- effectives, and will deal also with the question of security. .

The need for some such quick and resolute action, if the Conference, is to be saved, has impressed itself deeply upon Mr.' MaeDonald and Sir John. Simon, especially since their 'arrival in 'Geneva. The situation in Europe, it is felt, demands decisive action, if its further degeneration is to be stemmed, and the British Ministers believa that an adequate Convention, speedily concluded, would do much to restore the situation. •

_ It is recognised that a mere repetition of the July resolution or -the adjournment of the Conference before decisive steps have been taken to solv» the main problems before the Conference, would, in the circumstances, be quite inadequate.

The proposed Disarmament Treaty will, of necessity, call,for compromises between different national viewpoints. It. is, ho-wever, felt that the compromises and even the^substantial sacrifices that they_may involve will be justified if the Conference is saved and an important step achieved in th& task pf organising peace. "