DISARMAMENT TOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 28, 2 August 1933, Page 7

DISARMAMENT TOUR

EUROPEAN NATIONS

POINTS IN AGREEMENT

(British Official Wireless.) I (Received August 2, 11 a.m.) KUGBY, August 1. Commenting on the decision of Mr. Arthur Henderson to stand as Labour candidate for the Clay Cross constituency, "Tho Times" says: "What matters is the extent to which his return to tho party business will affect his task as President of tho Disarmament Conference. Mr. Henderson has just returned from a tour to Paris, Rome, Berlin, and Prague to discuss disarmament, and has gained the conviction that every Government desires a working arrangement by which the nations will be spared' senseless competition in weapons of destruction, as oppressive for national Budgets as. damaging to international confidence. "Europe is still distracted by the rights of France and wrongs of Germany, but all are agreed tha.t some limit of armaments is better than no' limit, that control of the private manufacture of arms is desirable, that a system of. supervision must be established, and that a permanent disarmament commission is necessary for the purpose, and that air bombing should be banned as an instrument of warfare between civilised nations. Meanwhile, one country after another has shown a readiness to make concessions. "These are the objects," says "The Times," "for which the general commission can continue to work, and Mr. Henderson has in mind further tours of European capitals in September as a necessary preliminary to a meeting of the general commission in Geneva on October 16." '