TWO METHODS OF ARMS LIMITATION

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6902, 7 May 1929, Page 7

TWO METHODS OF ARMS LIMITATION

CUSHENDUN’S REFERENCE.

British Official Wireless.

RUGBY, May 3.

In the Preparatory Disarmament Conference at Genova, to-day, Lord Cushendun, tho chief British dolegatc, gave an opinion regarding two methods of the limitation of war material which had been put forward, namoly direct limitation and budgetary limitation. He considered direct limitation was tho obvious and ideal method, except that it could hot be applied withput some form of international control.

Mr. Gibson, the United States delegate, had urged this system but he did not think tho United States could per-' mit an international commission to investigate its armaments and ho could say the same for England. With these two countries refusing international control, the direct system of limiting war material became impossible. Another proposal was’ that disarmament should be left to the good faith of those concerned. Without something more complete than - good faithv however, he feared international suspicion would only be increased. He preferred the French proposal for budgetary limitation, which, while it was not ideal, he - considered was a step in the right direction.