DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 November 1927, Page 7

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.

FORMA L ATTEN DAN CE. AM KIM GAN PARTICI RATION. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK. Nov. 21. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says the participation of the United States in the meeting at Geneva on November 30 of the Preparatory Commission on Armament Limitation will probably be confined to a formal attendance. The American Minister to Switzerland, Mr Wilson, will represent America,’ but as the security question will presumable raise no problems of direct concern to the United States, it is not planned to send technical experts, particularly as the discussion of armament limitations is not scheduled until next spring. The United States may find it advisable to signify its position by a simple declaration of policy concerning its non-interest in European polii-tics. No word ham reached the State Department that Great Britain is contemplating offering a resolution to the commission for th|3 appointment ol a special committee to consider naval limitations, as intimated in news despatches from Paris, and officials doubt whether such a. proposal would carry at the Geneva meeting. If one of tlv naval Powers made an informal proposal for Britain, Japan and the United States to consider naval limitation informally during the commissiondeliberations, the United States might consider such a suggestion.