FEELING IN FRANCE
CONTROL bf ARMAMENTS WATCHWORD OF POLICY LONDON, May 22. The " News-Chronicle's " Paris correspondent says the Socialist newspaper "Populaire" declares that Cabinet, after a' stormy meeting, instructed M. Boncour to accept the British disarmament plan on condition that the international control of armaments was established and disarmament was effected in stages. ■ " . , The' Paris correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" saya control has become the watchword of France's disarmament policy. She is prepared to disarm conditionally on international control of armaments being secured. This is primarily aimed at Hitlerite Germany, which, France declares, cannot bo trusted to. fulfil promises not to rearm. . . ■ The "Petit Pari.sien's" Geneva correspondent, explaining why France must demand control, says now that Herr Hitler has accepted the ,Mac Donald plan the German delegation is trying to transfer to France responsibility for hampering the Disarmament Conference. \ Therefore Franco must show willingness to disarm, but must insist on control. French newspapers urge M. Boncour not to tie France's hands without complete, security, regarding which the British guarantees are insufficient.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 7
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171FEELING IN FRANCE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 7
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