GERMANY STANDS FIRM
Disarmament of Others Will Influence Her. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. GENEVA, May 9' Unable to discover an acceptable course of action the Procedure Committee of the Disarmament Conference adjourned after strenuous efforts had been made to persuade Germany to abandon her opposition to standardised armies, which is the essential part of the British plan. The German Minister of Defence, General Blomberg, in a statement to the Berlin Press, denies the allegation that Germany has wilfully obstructed the work of the Disarmament Conference. He declared that the proposal to impose the French system of a shortservice militia ignored the interests of the Reich, which could not be expected to switch over from an army with a twelve-year period of service to one with one year in only nine months. The time for dictating to the Reich was now over, he said. Her attitude would depend upon the extent of disarmament by other nations. Germany would come to no decision until that was known.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 757, 10 May 1933, Page 1
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