"PARALLEL EFFORTS"

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 9

"PARALLEL EFFORTS"

APPROACH TO PROBLEM

BILATERAL CONVERSATIONS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 13, 11 a.m.)' RUGBY, December 12. In accordance with the decision taken by the Disarmament Conference Bureau when a fortnight ago it adjourned until January, "parallel and supplementary) efforts " have been and are being undertaken by the various Governments through diplomatic channels. With this general object in. view th« British Government is m close touch, with Paris, Berlin, and Rome, and is encouraging bilateral conversations. These communications have at present only; reached the .exploratory stage, and it may be assumed that, when they" have been carried further, the nest business of the British Government will be to collate the results. It is emphasised' that the > present situation will not be cleared up by any isolated pronouncement from any quarter, as the whols purpose is to seek the best pQssibla basis upon which the work at Geneva, could be resumed with prospects of achieving something positive. The recent interview which tha President of the Disarmament. Confers ence, Mr. Arthur Henderson, had with! the- British Foreign 'Secretary, Sir John. Simon, is understood to have been ex« tremely cordial and they are working in. close accord.