SAFEGUARDING PEACE.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 5

SAFEGUARDING PEACE.

URGENT AND CRITICAL TASK AT GENEVA. SAVING THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE. MISSION OF BRITISH MINISTERS. RUGBY, March 11. The Prime Minister and Sir John Simon arrived at Geneva from Paris this morning. Mr. Anthony Eden, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who has been British delegate during the recent proceedings of the Disarmament Conference, met the Ministers and informed them of the developments of the Conference during the past few days.

Later in the morning Mr. Arthur Henderson, Chairman of the Disarmament Conference, called on Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and discussed with him measures necessary to effect concrete decisions with as little delay as possible. Earlier in the morning the Prime Minister saw Dr. Benes, Rapporteur of the Conference, and arrangements were made for other visits during the day from M. Bourquin (Belgium), Chairman of the Effectives Committee, Baron Aloisi (Italy), and Mr. Hugh Wilson (United States). It is recognised that immediate measures are necessary to save the Disarmament Conference, and the attitude from which this problem was viewed during yesterday’s AngloFrench conversations in Paris is sufficiently indicated in the phrase of the official communique: “The urgency of the Geneva problem, especially in relation to the actual European situation, was fully recognised by the Ministers who declared themselves determined to seek in agreement with representatives of other States all means of safeguarding the peace of the world.”—(British Official Wireless.)