DISARMAMENT PROGRESS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 July 1932, Page 7

DISARMAMENT PROGRESS

LATE EDITION

PESSIMISM NOT JUSTIFIED DIFFICULTIES AT CONFERENCE VARYING POINTS OF VIEWHOPES OF REACHING ACCORD. (British Official Wireless.) Received 1 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, July 27. Mr A. Henderson, chairman of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, said when interviewed at London that, although not completely satisfied with the results of the conference to date, he thought pessimism about its final achievements was not justified. “What the people are liable to foxget is that 64 nations are represented at Geneva, all with different armament problems, and it is not easy, though not impossible, to adjust so .many viewpoints.” said Mr Henderson. “We are not yet done with the Hoover proposals, the Simon resolution to abolish aggressive weapons, or the clause in the Versailles Treaty which says Germany Agreed to disarm as a preliminary to general disarmament on the part of the victorious nations in the Great War. Those three points, coupled with the desire of the peoples of the world for disarmament, are my main reasons for optimism.”