ARMS LIMITATION

Southland Times, Issue 22131, 27 September 1933, Page 5

ARMS LIMITATION

GENEVA DISCUSSIONS ATTEMPTS TO RECONCILE INTERESTS THE BUDGET ASPECT (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, September 25. During the week-end further exchanges of views took, place at Geneva on disarmament questions in which Captain R. A. Eden, Baron Aloisi (Italy), M. Paul Boncour (France), Baron von Neurath (Germany), Mr Norman Davis (United States) and Mr Arthur Henderson (president of the Disarmament Conference) have all taken part. The Times says that these attempts to reconcile particular interests are designed to secure the maximum common ground between Britain, France, Italy and the United States on a basis to which Germany can reasonably agree. There is not, and there never was, any question of a united front to present Germany with an irreducible scheme. It is rather the application of board-room methods for securing an agreement in merging joint interests. Evidently at the first stage nobody is going to allow the negotiations to break down for the sake of minor questions, though the period of concession and counter-con-cession has not been reached. The Times mentions that parallel with the political and technical discussions the budget aspect of disarmament is being examined and is likely to play an important part when the conference is resumed.