DELAY IN DISARMAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 5

DELAY IN DISARMAMENT

HOUSE OS? LORDS DEBATE

POLICY STATEMENT SOUGHT

SINO-JAPANESE DISPUTE

EQUALITY FOR GERMANY

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

Rec. 10 p.m> London, Nov. 30. Lord Cecil, requesting the Government to make a policy statement, on disarmament and the Sino-Japanese dispute in the House of Lords, agreed that equality of status for Germany was the only road to success. Mr. Winston Churchill’s suggested territorial re-arrangements in Europe without disarmament would be distrusted by the peoples and disastrous to the British disarmament proposals. They were a long way short of Mr. Baldwin’s speech and seemed to invite other nations to reply in the negative. Lord Reading said he hoped the Government would press for a reduction in armaments expenditure as the most effective means of securing disarmament This would help British relations with the United States and other countries.

Lord Hailsham replied that he was hot in a position to make statements on general policy. Britain was using her influence in the League of Nations towards a satisfactory settlement in Manchuria. The Government believed that disarmament could be best achieved by informal preliminary exchanges between the principal Powers. He hoped the hext few days would produce conditions leading to Germany’s rejoining the Disarmament Conference.