GERMANY SUPPORTS

Grey River Argus, 21 March 1928, Page 5

GERMANY SUPPORTS

SOVIET PROPOSAL For Complete Disarmament LITVINOFF'S acid test for the league. GENEVA, March 20. Following the Soviet’s example, .the Turkish representative, Rushdi Bey, welcomed the Preparatory Disarmament Commission, and produced a detailed proposal for security, based on coi.-ri.liation. security and jjon-aggres-sion treaties. He said Turkey, like others, sought ideal security, achieved through a federation of nations imposing peace, but that at present was impossible; therefore she sought relative security as the best obtainable through bilateral and multilateral treaties, and non-aggression neutrality pacts surrounded by guarantees that League members should, however, be released from pledges of non-aggression so soon as the other state became the aggressor. M. Litvinoff followed with a recapitulation of the League’s failures in the direction of disarmament. He reiterated that the Soviet was ready to abolish armed forces directly others agreed to do likewise. M. Litvinoff insisted on a commission to decide definitely whether the League accepts the principle of complete disarmament, and whether it is prepared to carry out within a year, the first stage thereof, which is sufficient to render war impossible. Herr Bernstoff welcomed the Soviet j) reposals. The Commission adjourned.