SURPRISE SPRUNG

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3640, 8 February 1932, Page 6

SURPRISE SPRUNG

FRANCE'S SCHEME FOR THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO BE SUPER. POWER IN THE WORLD’S COUNCILS fAuat. and N.Z. Cable) Geneva, February 5. M. Tardieii created a sensation, by circulating far reaching proposals. The proposals envisage making the League a super power in the world s council-. The commil ice and heads of gestions which emanate from the French Cabinet’s National Defence Council and Pireparatory Disarmament Committee, MAI. Retain and Weygand and include a reduction of French a.rma,meats < cuiditio.ual on guarantees of national security. The Signatory States only shall he allowed to construct and use aircraft, of a. nou-military character and of a. fixed tonnage. Machines above this figure airo to ho employable only on continental inter-continental a.nd inter-colonial organisations under the auspices of the League which alone may dispose of heavy bombers of a specified radius. Thu construction of iuacb.ilic,, exitbeilijllg a certain tonnage is to he forbidden. Only States r-lc-Jgvm theuiselves to place

their forces at the League's disposal or joint action to suppress and prevent war may include machines of a tonnage 'between the limits mentioned, but signatories which are tile ’ victims of aft aggressive bombardment may rc’aliatorily use all their air forces..