TO ASSURE PEACE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 40, 15 January 1935, Page 7

TO ASSURE PEACE

DESIRE BY BRITISH CABINET. AGREEMENT ON ARMS. RECOGNITION OF GERMANY, (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received January 15, 11.20 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 14. The Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon) has returned to London from Geneva in order to attend a Cabinet meeting, which is being held to-day instead of Wednesday to enable the Prime Minister to fulfil various public engagements in the North of England tiiis week.

'The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says the main objects which the British Ministers seek to advance are a further pacification of Europe by the perfection and extension, as necessary, of the existing peace structure, and the conclusion, of an international agreement for arms limitation on a basis giving actual recognition to German equality of status. Incidentally, some discussion and interest have been aroused by the suggestion initiated by the Times that an arms convention might bo approached by way of a declaration by the Powers benefiting from the Treaty of Versailles that chapter five of the treaty, containing the military, naval, and air clauses, should no longer operate against any signatory Power on condition that a general agreement on the limitation of armaments and the full participation of Germany in a collective European scheme arc reached.

EUROPEAN PROBLEMS

OPPORTUNITY OF SETTLEMENT. LONDON, Jan. 14. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says that the British Cabinet believes a new opportunity is about to present itself for an all-round settlement of post-war problems. Considerable advances have been made toward an effective security structure in the Franco-Italian accord, the Russo-French accord, and the pacification of Central Europe. “In all these fabrics there is a ,place awaiting Germany to join as an equal partnei,” the paper comments.