LIMITATION OF ARMS
IL DUCE'S PROPOSAL "RESULT OF WILLINGNESS" LONDON. May 27 It is understood that President Roosevelt has no intention of acceding to Signor Mussolini's suggestion for a World Arms Limitation Conference, as he is convinced that such a conference would have little chance of success and might even advance world rearmament. A message from Rome states that Signor Gnyda, writing in II Giornale d'ltalia, says: "Signor Mussolini's arms limitation proposal comes from the head of a State well armed, ready and disciplined and is the result of studied willingness, not of necessity." Signor Gay da adds that Mr. Roosevelt is the statesman best qualified to call such a conference because the United States has no necessity for huge armaments. Thus to the United States alone can the task of arbitration between opposing European interests be entrusted. According to a message from Washington, Mr S. Welles, Assistant Secretary of State, in an interview, stated that as the report that Signor Mussolini was prepared to join an Arms Limitation Conference had reached him only through unofficial channels, he could not officially comment on it.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 13
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LIMITATION OF ARMS
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22741, 29 May 1937, Page 13
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