DISARMAMENT
CONFERENCE MAY YET FUNCTION. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright ) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) London, May 10. Mr Norman Davis (United States), who is due at Geneva this week, is expected to produce definite proposals by the United States regarding security. Should these prove acceptable to France and there is a change in the attitude of Germany, the Disarmament Conference may yet function with beneficial repercussions on the debts question and the World Conference.
The French Cabinet, with one eye on Washington and the other on Berlin, meets and marks.time. . , Another report states that it is rumoured that the United States has made a debt offer to France in which her interest will be cancelled and the debt, reduced to the capital alone, 30 per cent, to be paid immediately in gold and silver and the balance in annuities spread over 50 years or it might be commercialized in the form of an international loan.
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Southland Times, Issue 22012, 11 May 1933, Page 7
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