RUMOURS OF BREAKDOWN
DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
OFFENSIVENESS OF WEAPONS NOT A SINGLE AGREEMENT By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Rec. 7 p.m. Geneva, June 7. The land disarmament commission has adopted a report admitting its inability to reach unanimity on the offensiveness of any single land weapon. The disagreement has led to rumours t a the fate of the whole disarmament conference' is imperilled. London, May 27. It is significant that the Manchester Guardian, an outstanding protagonist or disarmament, publishes a column es patch from Geneva, declaring that nobody thinks the Disarmament Conierence will be fruitful unless public and world opinion insists that the sinister farce should cease. “The public should know, the. writersays, “that the technical commissions are slowly poisoning the conference with a flood of unintelligible jargon. All the great Powers are equally blameworthy. Mr. Winston Churchill, in an article in the Daily Mail, makes a bitter attack on the conference.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1932, Page 5
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