DISARMAMENT ISSUE
GENEVA CONFERENCE '
A-.,.. GRAVITY OF SITUATION
HENDERSON AND BARTHOU
(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 29, 11 a.m.) / ' RUGBY, May 28. The future of the Disarmament Conference will Jbe determined at a' meeting of the General Commission "of the Conference, which opens at Geneva tomorrow.
'!j Today's meeting of the Bureau of the Conference was brief. The chair-, 1 man (Mr. Arthur Henderson), after reading a short statement of the contents of the communications that have passed between the principal European. Powers during recent months, expressed the hope that the Bureau would unanimously recommend to ■ the .General Commission that the gravity of the situation commands more than ever an unflagging determination to pursue efforts towards securing a convention in accordance with the mandate given to .the Conference.
-M. Barthou, French Foreign Minister, was the1 only other speaker. He supported Mr. Henderson, and urged that, however difficult the task had been, the Conference should not consider its work finished.
The speeches at tomorrow's meeting will be broadcast.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 7
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