ARMS PROBLEM

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21764, 2 April 1934, Page 9

ARMS PROBLEM

DISCUSSION IN BRITAIN CABINET AND COMMITTEE CONVENTION DIFFICULTIES By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright British Wireless RUGBY, March 30 Tbe disarmament question is still engaging the British Government's close attention. It was before meetings of tbe Cabinet and its Disarmament Committee yesterday. It is understood that special attention is being given to the subject of guarantees for the execution of any disarmament convention ultimately agreed upon, and it is assumed that this subject also is being discussed in Paris, where Lord Tyrrell, British Ambassador, has been instructed to make certain further verbal inquiries from the French Government on matters arising out of its recent Note. Prominence at present also is being given to this question in view of the fact that tbe bureau of the Disarmament Conference at its last meeting appointed Mr. Arthur Henderson ss rapporteur to make soundings among the Governments principally concerned as to their views on guarantees. Tho main problems before the Disarmament Conference, however, remain and the British Government is still exerting all its energies to secure approval of the proposals in its memorandum. Tho German Government baa accepted it as a basis for discussion, but on three important matters derling with air armaments, the number of effectives and Germany's return to the League it has raised objections. It will be the bureau's duty to examine the views of all the Governments which engaged in the recent exchanges of views when it meets at Geneva on April 10, and in the Light of them and of Mr. Henderson's report, to make a clean draft of the original British draft convention. Thus it is hoped to clear the: ground for further progress.. It .is expected i that either Sir John Simon or Mr. Anthony Eden will attend the meeting of the bureau. AIMS OF GERMANS WAR NOT DESIRED LOST COLONIES FORGOTTEN LONDON, March 30 "Germans do not- -want-colonies and they do not want war. They only want Germany," said Dr. Karl Borner, a high Nazi official, on ,his departure for home after attending the International Students' Conference at Cambridge. Dr. Borner added that the colonial question had been exaggerated outside Germany. "We are sorry to have lost our dependencies, but to-day we have forgotten their existence," he went on. " Since the Nazi revolution we have had much more to think about than the nominal control of a few equatorial tracts. ■. " As for German war aims, they are a- myth. War would wreck the German dreams of. the rebirth of the people. " Moreover, Herr Hitler saw war from the ranks, and there never will be another war if he can prevent it,"