DISARMAMENT

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXX, Issue 8530, 19 October 1933, Page 3

DISARMAMENT

GERMAN OVERTURE TO POWERS PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE OUTSIDE GENEVA Australian ano- N. 7. Gable. LONDON, October 17. A message from Rome says that Germany, following Herr Hitler s veiled overture to M. Daladier, lias now informed Italy of her readiness to contine discussions outside Geneva. This is’ assumed to be a continuation of the previous conversations. Signor Mussolini hotly contradicted the report that he is determined to uphold tlie German case. “1 uphold neither Germany nor anyone else,” he said. “The situation should be met by the united wisdom of all the Governments concerned.”

As was anticipated, the proposal to submit to the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva a Four-Power resolution embodying no rearmament, disarmament by stages and control as a basis for future discussions was dropped because it barred the door against Germany. The president of the conference, Mr Arthur Henderson, in a broadcast speech, said it was every Government’s duty to uphold the Covenant of the League and the Paris Pact to make disarmament possible and to secure peace. “We cannot allow international anarchists to undermine law and order,” said Mr Henderson.