NO ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 May 1931, Page 5

NO ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT

INTIMATION FROM BRITAIN “EQUAL CONTRIBUTIONS’* [bbitish OFFICIAL WIRELESS.] RUGBY, May 10. Reference to the negotiations for a naval building agreement were made, last night, in a speech at Sheffield, by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Alexander). He said that he and the Foreign Secretary (Mr. Henderson) had made great efforts to get. adhesion to part 3 of the Naval Treaty, by France and Italv. They came back from Paris understanding that an agreement was complete, and that there was no question about it. “It is not wise, perhaps, for anyone who had to take part in international negotiations at this stage to apportion the blame,” Mr. Alexander continued. “We made the greatest possible concessions we could, and we came away from Paris on March 1, with an agreement, which I afterwards submitted to the Commons on March 12, in which there is, to me, no ambiguity. In France, to-day , questions have been raised at a somewhat late date. “I want to say,” he continued, ‘There will be no efforts lacking on,our part to promote that spirit of goodwill essential to secure progress in this direction, but I also want to say, that there is going to be no guarantee of success- in progress towards disarmament merely by one country always giving way. If you are going to get a disarmament which is going to be a real aid to peace,- it must be disarmament of all, and not of one, and all the nations concerned must make equal contributions to the effort.” NATIONAL SECRETS. ' LONDON, May 10. “Since 1914 Governments discovered the advantages of secrecy, nobody knows what gas bomb or aeroplane we will have to meet in wartime,” said Professor Delisle Burns, at the Rotarians Conference. “Consequently there is an immense amount of official spying among the members of the League of Nations.”