DESIRE OF NATIONS
PEACE MAINTENANCE.
MR HENDERSON’S MISSION. WHAT IT HAS DEMONSTRATED. (Official Wireless.) (Received August 2, 1i.45 a.m.) RUGBY, August 1. Mr Henderson has just returned from a tour of Paris, Rome, Berlin and Prague to discuss disarmament and he gained the conviction that every Government desires a working arrangement by whloh the nations may be spared the senseless com petition In weapons of destruction whloh Is as oppressive for national budgets, as It Is damaging to International confidence. , t Europe is still distraoted by the rights of France and the wrongs of Germany, but all are agreed That some limit of armaments is better than no limit; That the control of the private manufacture of arms Is desirable ; That a system of supervision must be established; That a permanent disarmament commission is necessary for the purpose; That air bombing should be banned as an instrument of. warfare between civilised nations. Meanwhile one country after another has shown its readiness Jo make concessions. There are objects for which the general commission can continue to work. Mr Henderson has In mind further tours of European capitals in September as a necessary preliminary to the meeting of the general commission in Geneva.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19013, 2 August 1933, Page 7
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