AN ARMAMENTS TRUCE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20351, 25 September 1931, Page 12

AN ARMAMENTS TRUCE.

BRITISH POLICY. CONDITIONAL AGREEMENT. (bbitish official wireless.) (Received September 24th, 5.5 p.m.) KUGBY, September £3. Mr Stanley Baldwin, replying in the House of Commons at question time in the absence of the Prime Minister, Mr Bamsay Mac Donald, stated with reference to the proposals of Signor Grandi for a truce in armaments pending a meeting of the Disarmament Conference that the British Government had followed with care the developments in tho third committee of the League of Nations Assembly, with regard to tho Italian proposals. Instructions had been sent to Lord Robert Cecil to the effect that he could agree to naval proposals subject to their acceptance by all the other parties, and that ho should givo an undertaking on behalf of the British Government that it would not accept Army or Air recruits for 1933 above the present low level unless unforeseen circumstances arose. Lord Cecil's action would necessarily be governed to a great extent by the views and proposals of the other delegates. The British Government was in cordial sympathy with the motives that pronipted the suggestion of the Italian delegate. It would create a favourable atmosphere for tho World's Disarmament Conference, and the Government would do all it could to further it.

PREDICTION OF FAILURE. (UKITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BX ELBCTEIO TELEOBAPH— COPratGHX.) GENEVA, September 23. The British United Press correspondent says that tho Italian proposal of an armaments truce is doomed to failure, owing to Japan's proposal to adjourn its operation. The American delegates Baid America would a year's truce if exempted the destroyers which the United States is building.