DISARMAMENT DISCUSSION
BRITISH DRAFT CONVENTION. GENERAL APPROVAL GIVEN. British Wireless. Rugby, March 28. In a statement in the House of Commons on the present position of the Disarmament Conference Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, said that the General Commission yesterday unanimously decided to take the British draft convention as the basis for subsequent discussions, the delegations retaining the right to propose modifications, amendments and additions. The conference adjourned until April 25, when it would examine the convention chapter by chapter and article by article. Sir John Simon added: “This British initiative, which involves the pursuit of a new method—the placing before the conference of a comprehensive scheme in convention form, so that each question will be studied in relation to other necessary questions—received general satisfaction as giving the best prospect of reaching an agreed solution.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1933, Page 5
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