DISARMAMENT PROBLEM

Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 9

DISARMAMENT PROBLEM

FRANCE'S CASE NO REDUCTION IN ARMED FORCES Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 17. (Received September 18, at 10.30 a.m.) The Paris correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says: France’s disarmament case, as it will be presented to Captain Eden on September 18, is that Franco will not agree to the slightest diminution of her armed forces at present. If the system of permanent automatic control of armaments is accepted at Geneva and proved effective over a period of years, France will then make “ largo reductions.” The period asked is four years, but on this point Franco may be prepared to compromise. Franco regards Germany’s acceptance of international control as a test of good faith, because it will settle the question of whether Germany is already secretly rearming. PRESS SUMMARISES POLICY PARIS, September 17. (Received September 18, at 11.30 a.m.) In view of Captain Eden’s arrival to discuss disarmament tho Press devotes much space to the subject, summarising the French viewpoint thus:— First, no rearmament in Germany; secondly, universal international control of armaments; thirdly, France to wait five years for proof that Germany is keeping her word, meanwhile refusing to reduce her own armaments.