RUSSIAN PLAN

Grey River Argus, 18 April 1929, Page 5

RUSSIAN PLAN

FOR DISARMAMENT. GAINS HEARING AT GENEVA. GENEVA, April 16. At the preparatory Disarmament Commission, M. Litvinoff, in a long speech, demanded that the Commission should abandon the present methods and reject direct diplomatic negotiations for «rmament agreements, which were resultless, and instead ’he Commission should consider the Soviet proposal for a fifty per cent reduction of all existing military, naval and air forces. Count Bernstorff supported action by the League instead of direct diplomatic negotiations. He said "the task of this Commission is to make agree mentis itself, instead of merely registering agreements reached by Governments.” LATER. Russia Iras scored a preliminary success inasmuch as the Commission later agreed to discuss to-morrow whether the plan of a 50 per cent, reduction van be accepted as the basis for future work, instead of a draft convention.