SOVIETS SECURITY PACT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19807, 24 May 1934, Page 9

SOVIETS SECURITY PACT

PLANS PRESENTED AT GENEVA

RUSSIA’S ATTITUDE TO LEAGUE CHANGED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright GENEVA, May 22. M. Litvinoff (Foreign Commissar for the Soviet who unexpectedly arrived at Geneva), will submit a plan to the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference on May 29 for a mutual security pact. He is suggesting that a political commission should examine it immediately. The main lines follow M. Paul Boncour’s suggestion in 1933, providing for three groups of Powers. The first includes all agreeing to consultative measures in the event of aggression; the second includes all members of the League, and also providing for action under the Covenant; the third provides for a mutual European defensive pact, excluding Britain, for collective action in the event of aggression. The Soviet proposal notes that the first three articles of the MacDonald Plan introduces the Soviet definition of aggressor. Meanwhile it is understood that the United States will push the question of supervision and control. The significance of M. Litvinoff's move is increased by the prospects of Russia joining the League of Nations in September. It is believed Russia has modified her original stipulation that a full vote of the Assembly must precede inviting her to join.