SOVIET SCORES POINT
50 PER CENT. REDUCTION SOUGHT IN ARMS PREPARATORY COMMISSION (United Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 0 a.m. * GENEVA, Tuesday.' At the sitting of the Prepartory Disarmament Commission of the League of Nations, M. Litvinoff (Russia), in a long spech demanded that the Commission abandon the present methods and reject diplomatic negotiation for armament agreements, which were resultless. Instead, the Commission should consider the Soviet proposal for a 50 per cent, reduction in all existing military, naval, and air forces. Count von Bernstorff (Germany) supported action by the League instead of by direct negotiation. “The task of this Commission,” ho declared, "is to make agreements itself, instead of merely registering the agreements reached by the Governments.”
Russia scored a preliminary success, inasmuch the the Commission later agreed to discuss to-morrow whether the plan of a 50 per ce'nt. reduction in armaments can be accepted as a basis for future work, instead of the Draft Convention.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 640, 17 April 1929, Page 9
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