ARMS LIMITATION.
WORLD CONFERENCE IN FEBRUARY.
BRITISH DELEGATION
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 2. The importance which the British Government is known to attach to the forthcoming world disarmament conference received further emphasis today, when in the House of Commons at question time the Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, made an announcement on the composition of the British delegation. Mr MacDonald said that full membership had not yet been settled, but that he himself would lead the delegation, and that it would include five other Cabinet Ministers, namely, the Foreign Secretary, the Dominions Secretary, the War and Air Ministers, and the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Replying to other questions on British policy at the conference, Mr MacDonald referred to the fact that under the late Labour Government a committee of members of the three parties examined broadly the terms of the draft convention, and stated that the present Government had continued the examination in the fullest detail. He doubted if it would * be possible, however, to make a statement on the Govment’s policy before the House rose for the Christmas recess.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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182ARMS LIMITATION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 4, 4 December 1931, Page 7
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