DISARMAMENT
THE SOVIET PROPOSAL A PRELIMINARY SUCCESS [ Australian Press Assn. ] GENEVA. April 36. At the Preparatory Disarmament Commission M. Litvinoff in a long speech demanded that the commission should abandon the ] resent methods and reject direct diplomatic negotiations for armament agreements which were without result, and instead the Commission should consider the Soviet proposal for a 5(1 per cent, reduction of all the existing military, naval, and air forces. Count Bernstorff supported action by the League instead of direct diplomatic negotiations. He said: “The task of this Commission is to make agreements itself instead of merely registering agreements reached by Governments.’ ’ Russia scored a preliminary success inasmuch as the Commission later agreed to discuss to-morrow whether the plan of a 50 per cent, reduction ran be accepted as the basis for future work instead of the draft convention.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 92, 18 April 1929, Page 8
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