PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
WHAT DOES FRANCE WANT ?
URGENCY REALISED
LONDON, September 20. The fact that an emergency meeting of Cabinet is being Jield today is sufficient indication of the urgency of the disarmament discussions. It is understood that tlio conversations at Paris centred mainly on the French plan for regular and compulsory.. supervision of national armaments atJ■- six months intervals over a trial period of years, after which the French Government would agree to a disarmament measure if the agreement were meanwhile observed.
The British United Press Paris correspondent says that Mr. Norman Davis, the United States representative, delivered a verbal message from President Roosevelt to the French Premier (M. Daladier): "Enough of killing timej What-does Franco want?" ... ~:
The diplomatic correspondent of tho "Daily Express" suggests that France is prepared to withdraw from the Disarmament Conference, if 'her' demands are not accepted. Britain is thus in a predicament, because if she agrees to France's proposals^ then an \ angry Germany" is likely to'break up the Conference. France's object in proposing an armament standstill with supervision is to provide means of ''really testing Germany's disarmament. ' ' ' '.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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182PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1933, Page 11
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