PAUSE AT GENEVA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 9

PAUSE AT GENEVA

FRANCE AND GERMANY

DISARMAMENT DIFFERENCE

tßrttisn Ufflciai Winmm.l (Received October 2, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, September 30. The disarmament conversations at Geneva, in which Sir John Simon again took a prominent part yesterday, were suspended last night on tho departure of tho German delegates for Berlin, where Baron yon Neurath will put his Government iii possession of the latest facts of tho discussion. It is hoped that the Germans will return to Geneva ,next week,, and tho importance whiek attaches to tho reply they !.will bring is fully recognised iv view of the fact that tho Bureau of the Disarmament Conference is due to meet in the follow? ing week. ■ The questions in dispute between th« French and • Germans have been narrowed down, but the divergencies on those which'-remain are understood to be wide. Geneva reports suggest that the principle of supervision of armaments, as proposed by the French, if ' equally applied, is acceptable to Germany, but the interpretation of Germany's claim to equal rights raises difficulties. . ; TWO POINTS OF VIEW. The French view provided for Unit* ation at the present level jritb eventual reduction within a limited period of all armaments, effectives, and military expenditure after a generJ permanent control had beon setup, and provided the trial period gave good result* and that, there wexe some guarantee for security. The Germans, on the other hand, are understood to claim that tbe principle of equality of rights entitles them to. possession of "samples" of s>U armaments, including those forbidden to her by the Treaty of Versailles, "The' Times's" Geneva correspondent says that to grant these would enormously complicate the problem1 of control, and the French have from the first taken the view that this con-j cession would not be made to Germany until after the expiration of the four years' probation period. ','The Times" adds that it is thought that a basia of convention might be achieved, iC this difference could be composed. Sir John Simon: and Mr. Anthony Eden will return to London on Monday, resuming :theif duties' in Geneva later.