DISARMAMENT WORK

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 249, 18 September 1933, Page 7

DISARMAMENT WORK

THE FRENCH CASE. NO DIMINUTION IN FORCES. ■ EYES ON GERMANY. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Times Gables.) Received September 18, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 17. The Times’s Paris correspondent says that France’s disarmament case, as it will be presented to Captain R. A. Eden on September 18, is that France will not agree to the slightest diminution of armed forces at the present time.

if the system of the permanent automatic control of armaments is accepted at Geneva, and proved effective over a period of years, France will then make “large reductions.” The period asked is four years, but on this point France may be prepared to compromise. France regards Germany’s acceptance of international control as the test of good faith, because it will settle the question as to whether Germany is already secretly re-arming.

POSITION SUMMARISED,

THREE MAIN POINTS,

Received September 18, 11.30 a.m. PARIS, Sept. 17. In view of Captain R. A. Eden’s arrival to discuss disarmament, the Press devotes much space to the subject, summarising the French viewpoint thus: — First: No rearmament in Germany.

Secondly: Universal international control of armaments.

Thirdly: Franco to wait five years for proof that Germany is keeping her word, meanwhile refusing to reduce her own armaments.