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DISARMAMENT PROJECT NEW BEGINNING SUGGESTED. NO AERIAL BOMBARDMENT. FEARS MUST BE ALLAYED. (Times Cable.) (Received 0 a.m.) LONDON, May 17. “The Times” suggests that, as the larger disarmament projeet has failed, a simpler beginning might bo made in Europe by a treaty among the Continental nations and Britain not to bombard eacli other Vs territory from the air.
The question of the abolition of bombing aeroplanes could be left in abeyance for the moment, says the paper, but something at least would have to ho done to trnnqiullise exaggerated fears and check the increase in bombing machines, which everywhere is threatened. A short convention, ako, might arrest competitors’ -building of large aggressive weapons of land warfare.
While the establishment of an international supervisory commission to inspect national armaments would be an Important step toward creating commonsense responsibility, it should still be possible, on humble beginnings, to build up a system of regulated and reduced armaments.
The “Daily Telegraph” also urges a limited convention, if only to deal with such matters as the renunciation of chemical warfare.
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Northern Advocate, 18 May 1934, Page 7
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