WORLD PEACE

Evening Star, Issue 21509, 6 September 1933, Page 7

WORLD PEACE

MENACED IN EUROPE

GERMANY STEADILY ARMING

Press Association- -By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, September 4,

The ‘News-Chronicle’ says: “ Wednesday’s meeting of the Cabinet may be a prelude to decisions of vital import to world peace. It is expected to precede informal international discussions, anticipating resumption of the Disarmament Conference in October. In view of information in the possession of the British and French Governments the pending diplomatic interchanges must almost inevitably test the sincerity of Herr Hitler’s peace professions. Germany is steadily arming, and France considers that German artillery will be adequate for war in four or five years, hut she is more gravely perturbed by the almost immediate aerial menace, and consequently she will propose that any Geneva agreement shall embrace a compulsory half-yearly investigation into armaments.”

FRANCO-BRITISH CONSULTATIONS

LONDON, September 6. [(Received September 6, at 10 a.m.)

France and Britain will hold preliminary disarmament consultations in Paris on September 18 in an endeavour to reach an agreement on the British draft convention, which will again bo discussed by the full conference at Geneva on October 16.

BRITISH CABINET MEETS

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND DISARMAMENT DISCUSSED.

(Britiih Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, September 5

’(Received September 6, at noon.)

Cabinet to-day sat for four hours. There was practically a full attendance. It is understood that foreign affairs and disarmament were the principal subjects under examination. The Prime Minister, who presided, afterwards left for his visit to the King and Queen' at Balmoral.

It is expected that Captain Anthony Eden (Foreign Under-Secretary) will go to Paris later this month for conversations with the French Government on the various points which arose at the Disarmament Conference during the first reading of the British draft convention. Mr Norman Davis (the [United States delegate to the conference) will be in London to-morrow and Vvill see Sir John Simon at the Foreign Office.

OTHER SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION

LONDON, September 5. [(Received September 6, at 10.30 a.m.) It is reported from Paris that the [Austrian situation, and the restoration of the Balkan and Central Europe boundaries will be discussed at Paris on September 18.