ARMS LIMITATION

Taranaki Daily News, 16 January 1935, Page 7

ARMS LIMITATION

PACIFICATION OF EUROPE BRITISH CABINET MEETS OBJECTS TO BE ADVANCED RECOGNITION TO GERMANY British Wireless. Rugby, Jan. 14. Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, returned to London in order to attend a Cabinet meeting which is being held today instead of Wednesday to enable the Prime Minister to fulfil various public engagements in the north of England this week. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent says the main objects which the British Ministers seek to advance are further pacification in Europe by the perfection and extension, where it is necessary, of the existing peace structure and the conclusion of an international agreement for an— limitation on a basis giving actual recognition to German equality of status. Some discussion and interest has been aroused by a suggestion initiated by The Times that the arms convention might be approached by way of a declaration by the Powers benefiting from the Treaty of Versailles that chapter five of the treaty, containing military, naval and air clauses, should no longer operate against any signatory Power on condition that a general agreement on limitation of armament, including full participation by Germany in a collective European scheme, was reached.