RESPONSE BY DELEGATES

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1933, Page 7

RESPONSE BY DELEGATES

PLEA FOR DISARMAMENT DESIRE TO EXPEDITE WORK TIME TO MAKE DECISIONS THE BRITISH PROGRAMME By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. British Wireless. Rugby, Feb. 10. The urgent plea for early discussions by the Disarmament Conference made at Geneva by Mr. R. A. Eden, British representative, produced a sympathetic response from many delegates. Mr. Eden emphasised that the programme of work submitted by the United Kingdom delegation was in no sense a new statement of policy, but was designed solely to facilitate and accelerate the procedure. There were already sufficient plans before the conference, and most of these had already been adequately examined from the technical viewpoint. To enable the conference now to proceed to decisions the British programme of work took account of those who insisted upon a connection between security and disarmament and invited discussion of the security position put forward in the French plan, while at the same time providing for the discussion of the other proposals made to the conference. The time had now come for the Governments to shoulder their responsibilities and, facing realities, weigh the risks against the incomparably greater danger of allowing the conference to fail.