WORLD DISARMAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21196, 29 November 1930, Page 13

WORLD DISARMAMENT

THE GENEVA PROPOSAL. PERMANENT COMMISSION. (British Official Wireless.) CUpltcd Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, November 27. The scheme of the Permanent Disarmament Commission at Geneva is briefly stated, as follows:—The Governments shall appoint members to this permanent commission, riot as their representatives, hut in respect, of their qualifications for the duties of following the execution of the proposed disarmament convention. The' commission will meet annually, or, if special necessity arises, more frequently. Every year it will make at least one report, to be submitted to the League Council, and to all States which are signatories of the convention. In connection with the United States clause it . is pointed out that the purpose of the article was not to enable the signatories/ to avoid their obligations, but to; provide for exceptional'circumstances, which it was hoped would never arise. " LAND ARMAMENT. GERMAN CRITICISM RESENTED. ■ GENEVA, November 27. When Count Bernstorff declared that Germany must, have parity and security the same as the other nations, and that the League Commission had thus far done little for land disarmament. Lord Cecil warmly protested at such ' illfounded criticism. 1 •’ Count Bernstorff reiterated that everything had been subordinated to naval disarmament. The- commission, >by 12 votes to 5, rejected' the German proposal to make the convention not. subservient to existing treaties, and thus virtually reaffirmed the supremacy of the, Versailles Treaty.