VIEWS ON DISARMAMENT

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 25 September 1933, Page 7

VIEWS ON DISARMAMENT

PROGRESS OF ADJUSTMENT PARIS PARLEYS ENCOURAGING CONTENTS OF CONVENTION. INTERNATIONAL SUPERVISION. (British Official Wireless.) Received 12.50 p.m. to-day. RTJGBY, Sept. 23. Yesterday’s disarmament conversations in Paris are understood to have been encouraging and helpful and to have carried still further the work of adjusting the views of the British, French and United States Dover,ndents. This had been the object of earlier talks, which Captain R. A. Eden (British Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) and (Mr Norman Davis (America) had had with the French Ministers. By these preliminary discussions it is hoped to smooth the way when the Disarmament Conference is resumed and there is every reason to believe that much progress in this direction was made. As the result of of the preliminary conversations, which have to be laid before 50 or 00 nations at the conference for discussion and approval, no question of final agreement arises in connection with these talks, but they none the less serve a useful purpose. According to “The Times” the questions under discussion were the contents of the eventful disarmament convention and the conditions, including international supervison, on which it could be accepted by all the parties. The British .Gfovernment insisted on giving the convention first place in the discussions and in keeping the conditions in secondary proportion. The main purpose of the conference, therefore, was to discover how far, assuming the necessary conditions were granted, France was prepared to go in disarmament. Here the British representatives at once found reason for encouragement. They found the French Government prepared to go further after the preliminary period than before and they found also a nearer approach to Franco-Italian understanding than at any previous time on the contents of the Disarmament Convention.