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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 8

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DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. SUBSTANTIAL DECISIONS REQUIRED. (British Official Wireless.) Received February 10, 1.10 p.m. RUGBY, Eeb. 9. The desire to see the Disarmament Conference speeded up was expressed by Captain Eden, British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, at Geneva to-day when the commission met t» consider the conference agenda. “We are becoming anxious at the slow progress of tlie conference,” he said. “Unless substantial decisions can he reached within the next few weeks, the prospects for the Conference must become steadily darker. Britain believes that, the present session should mark the entry upon a new phase of the Conference. One of the decisions of the Governments must be to shoulder the responsibilities and face the realities.”

BRITAIN’S OBJECTIVE

REDUCTION OF AIR FORCES

(British Official Wireless.) Received February 10, 1.10 p.m. RUGBY, Eeb. 9. Questioned in the House of Commons regarding the recent British suggestions of speeding up an effective programme of work at the Disarmament Conference, Mr Ilamsay MacDonald said that, as far as it was concerned, it remained the practical and immediate objective of the Government to secure a reduction of the air forces of tho leading powers to the British level, to be followed by a further all round reduction by onetliird and the limitation of the unladen weight of military and naval aircraft.