TRAFFIC IN ARMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18633, 18 February 1935, Page 8

TRAFFIC IN ARMS

BRITAIN’S POLICY

GENEVA DISCUSSION

(British Official Wireless.)

Bee. 1.30 p.m. .RUGBY, Feb. 15. Lord Stanhope outlined the British Government’s policy on Governmental control of the manufacture and sale of armaments at Geneva when the committee on the traffic in arms had adopted the American draft convention as a basis of discussion.

Lord Stanhope said the object of the British Government was to introduce adequate practical measures for regulation and publicity internationally agreed upon in regard to the manufacture of arms; to devise a similar system for the regulation of publicity in regard to the trade in arms whereby that trade is confined to legitimate channels and only passes through responsible hands; to ensure that the world should have timely information of any material increase, in armament's in any country, whether bv import oi manufacture; and to provide machinery for the immediate imposition of an effective embargo on the export and import of firms if and when such occasion should appear to be advisable. Lord Stanhope maintained that tin. supervision required to fulfil these objects was simple, lie recalled the fact that: the United Kingdom had long exercised n stringent system of licensing for the export of arms, which, it generally applied, would remove the greater part of the evils associated wit h the trade.