A WORLD CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19373, 8 January 1925, Page 7

A WORLD CONFERENCE

SENATOR BORAH’S PROPOSAL. PRESIDENT COOLIDQIB’S ATTITUDE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January. 6. (Received January 7, at 10.10 p.m.) Continuing further to make clear the attitude of the administration towards Senator Borah’s resolution - asking President Coolidge to call an international conference to consider economic problems and a further measure of disarmament, White House intimates that the United States will take no action to call an armament conference until the decision of the League of Nations is announced concerning that body’s intention to call such a conference. . . „ , . President Coolidge is especially desirous of taking tho initiative in calling an assemblage further to limit naval armaments, particularly since one of the preliminary conditions towards such an action —namely, the institution of tho Dawes plan —has’ already been fulfilled. Congress is expected to renew the authorisation expressed. in the Naval Appropriation Act that tho President negotiate with Britain, Japan, Franco, and Italy relative to limiting the construction of all types and sizes of surface and sub-surface craft of 10,000 tons and less and aircraft, also the number of men to bo permitted in the naviee of the Powers concerned. President Coolidge is definitely willing to act upon this mandate. White House advances further reasons for objections to an economic conference —namely, that Europe is not yet ready to submit to the deliberations of such a conference many questions which, unless they were discussed, would seriously minimise the conference’s potential accomplishments.—A. and N.Z. Cable.