DISARMAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 21081, 19 April 1932, Page 7

DISARMAMENT

A' 1 ■ FRANCE'S PRICE PROPOSITION TO AMERICA Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 18. The ‘ Daily Express ’ correspondent at_ Geneva says that France, as the price of her disarmament, demanded that the United States should abandon the traditional freedom of the seas, and that instead there should bo an enlargement of the Kellogg Pact, under which the United States would undertake not to trade with a State which the Council of the League of Nations had defined as an aggressor. It is understood that unless Britain favours the French proposition the United States will refuse to countenance the project. It is also known that Sir John Simon again tried to persuade M. Tardien to reopen negotiations with Italy in order that both might sign the naval agreement drafted in London in 1930, which is abortive owing to France and Italy declining to sign. CONCRETE PROPOSALS. EXAMINATION AT GENEVA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 18. (Received April 19, at 11.30 a.m.) The Disarmament Conference’s examination of the concrete proposals of the French, American, and Italian delegations will take place at Geneva to-day.