ARMS CONTROL

Grey River Argus, 3 June 1933, Page 5

ARMS CONTROL

U.S.A. REFUSAL To Join in Enforcement (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received June 2 at 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Junt 2. Mr Norman Davis, American delegate, at. the General Committee of the Disarmament Conference, accepted the French plan for the automatic, effective, and continuous supervision of armaments, following on signature of the Convention, but he withheld American acceptance of a French amendment to the effect that the signatories to the Convention shall undertake to employ “tho necessary means of pressure to ensure the execution of the Treaty."

Mr Davis said that, some method must be found to exclude the United States from any implied obligation of this character.

It was explained later in American quarters that the United States would be willing to consult on the violation of the Treaty, but would be unwilling to underwrite the honesty of any nat ion.