TALK ON DISARMAMENT

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 November 1933, Page 5

TALK ON DISARMAMENT

HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE THE LOCARNO TREATY. BRITAIN’S SUPPORT. APPROVED. * POSSIBLE KEY TO PEACE. (Britisti Official Wire’e&s.) . RUGBY, Nov. 8. Sir- John Simon is proceeding to Geneva to attend Thursday’s meeting of the Disarmament Conference bureau. He travelled by air to Paris, where he was to have a conversation with M. Sarrant and M. Bonoour. A significant feature of the disarmament debate in the House of Commons was that every party leader who spoke supported Sir John Simon’s declaration that Britain would stand by the Locarno Treaty, while no one round anything favourable to say for the policy of isolation. Particular interest attached to the remarks of Sir Austen Chamberlain upon the Locarno Treaty. He said: “It is my firm conviction that as signature at Locarno did give immediate, relief to the tension of the jn-eceding year, so it is just as we are loyal to Locarno and maintain it that we can hope for " better things and relaxation of the present tension. If the key to peace can be said to be in the keeping of-any - one nation it is in our hands, and that knowledge and our loyalty arid knowledge are not untested and unproved.- ■ The loyalty of this country to its engagements is the firm rock on which alone you can ever hope to build reconciliation of France and Germany and' to establish stable peace on the Continent of Europe.” . Concluding the debate, Captain Ri. A Eden said that • although the last disarmament negotiations failed they must try again, if only because agreement was the onlv alternative to an armaments race. Remarking that the policy of isolation had been largely featured in the debate, he said the world was too close in these days for any country to afford such a luxury. That was one of the reasons why the Departure of Germany, from the conference was regretted, for they “wanted' to work in friendship with Germany as well as with other nations:' - - As neither the. French nor Italian Governments will be represented by VI misters a.t the Disarmament Bureau o-nn irrow the British Government delegate will he Mr A. G. M. Cadogan, of die Foreign Office. . The Rome correspondent of the British United Press states that Captain Goering informed Signor Mussolini of the terms on which Germany would return to the League of Nations and the Disarmament Conference. Continental newspapers give long rewrts of the House of Commons disarmament debate. ' The “Hello de Paris” blames British liplomacv for putting pressure on franco to disarm. “Le Rempaist” says : “Germany is wiping- The chemical works at Cologne never stop day or night. Are we to wait until, without a- declaration of’ war, half Paris lies in ruins?”

ATTITUDE OF GERMANY

WAR ON AGGRESSOR.

LONDON, Nov

.A high official of the German Foreign Office sard the German Government regards the Locaimo Pact a.s holding good ind that Germany could count on the minediate aid of 'Britain in the event if French invasion of German ternory also that Germany would feel bound to declare war on the aggressor n the event of war between Italy and Prance, says the Berlin correspondent vf the “Morning Post.”