DELAY WITH STATEMENT

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 16 November 1932, Page 9

DELAY WITH STATEMENT

LATE EDITION

PLANS FOR DISARMAMENT GREAT BRITAIN’S PROPOSALS POSSIBILLY OF GERMAN ACTION. NO ENCOURAGEMENT AT BERLIN (British Official Wireless.] Received 1 p.m to-day. RUGBY, Nov. 15. To meet the general convenience of delegates to the Disarmament Bureau and partly to give time for a more eoinplete study of the French plan Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary has postponed until Thursday the a nnouncement to the bureau of the now British disarmament proposals. To-day he had further long conversations with Mr N. Davis (America) and the British, French and Italian experts were also actively engaged together on the naval aspects of disarmament. , The postponement of Sir John Simon’.s speech is believed to be not unconnected with an attempt to bring Germany back to the fold, but official hints from Berlin discourage the hope and suggest that the French plan will prolong the- discussion for five years and are designed solely to perpetuate 'French Jpoliityeal supremacy, while the aim of the “arms, pool ’ is to save France from scrapping her own huge quantities of war materials, thus destroying the hopes of equality. Germanv, it is stated, will be able to adhere to the security proposals only when the peace treaties are revised. The Prime Minister, m the House of Commons, when asked for a definite undertaking that British .should not Tb e pledged at the Disarmament -Conference to Jiny scheme controlling internationally, civil aviation which might impede the development of Imperial air transport again refused to make any departure from the' normal practice when Government are- engaged in Uinjportant negotiations. Cheers greeted the answer and also that to a supplementary question which inquired whether he was aware that an overwhelming majority of members would support him oh the policy outlined by Mr. Stanley Baldwin on Friday night.

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(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12.15 p.m to-day. PARIS, Nov, 15. Most French newspapers comment favourably on* the French plan for disarmament. “Le Journal” says that no more serious contribution to world peace has ,been made since M. Herriot in 1924 tabled the draft of the protocol based on arbitration and security in disarmament. PLAIN ISSUES OBSCURED. Received 1 p.m. to-day. BERLIN. Nov. 15. The German Press’ -unanimously , deplores the manner in which it alleges France has obscured the plain issue of Germany’s armaments demands with masses of formulae. Some newspapers, however, admit that the French plan provides a basis for discussion.