ARMAMENTS LIMITATION.
WHY GERMANY DISSENTS. COMPULSION NOT GENERAL, (Received 1.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 30. The Government has infoAned the League of Nations Secretariat of its disagreement with the mutual guarantee pact as ill-fitted to ensure universal security of limitation 01 armaments. The Government also points out that a totally disarmed Germany would be an impossible position and submits the alternative suggestion that instead of piling up treaties and agreements subsidiary to the covenant the latter itself should be more thoroughly developed.
The German Government urges that violent settlement of disputes should be -prohibited, that an Arbitration Court for political disputes should be instituted and especially that disarmament should be compulsory on all States, adding that Germany would then be ready to enter the society of nations and co-operate in the preservation of peace.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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135ARMAMENTS LIMITATION. Northern Advocate, 31 July 1924, Page 5
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