DISARMAMENT

Wairarapa Daily Times, 26 September 1933, Page 3

DISARMAMENT

PARIS DISCUSSIONS. ENCOURAGING AND HELPFUL. RUGBY, Monday. Disarmament conversations in Paris are understood to have been encouraging and helpful, and to have carried still further the work of adjusting the views of the British, French and United States Governments, which had been the object of earlier talks which Cap-

tain Anthony Eden and Mr Norman Davis had had with French Ministers.

By these preliminary discussions it is hoped to smooth the way when the Disarmament Conference is resumed and there is every reason to believe much progress in this direction was made.

As the results of the preliminary conversations have to be laid before 'fifty or sixty nations at the conference for discussion and approval, no question of final agreement arises in connection with these talks, but they none the less serve a useful purpose.

According to ‘ ‘ The Times, ’ ’ the questions under discussion were the con--1 outs of an eventual Disarmament Convention. and the conditions, including international supervision, on which it could be accepted by all parties. The British Government insisted onr giving tiie convention the first place in the discussions and keeping the conditions in a secondary proportion. The main purpose of the conference then fore was to discover how far, assuming the necessary conditions, Franco was prepared to go in disarmament Here the British representatives at once found reason for en- ! couragement. They found the French Government prepared to go farther after the preliminary period than before, and they found also a nearer approach to a Franco-Italian understanding than at any previous time on the contents of the Disarmament Convention. —(P.A.)