A DRAFT CONVENTION!

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 9

A DRAFT CONVENTION!

QUESTION MR, PEOPLE

DO THEY WANT IT?

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 11th Dec, 11.30 a.m.), , RUGBY, 10th December. ' The Preparatory Commission ort Disarmament, after four years' intermittent labour, last night completed its Draft Convention. Into thisf framework, the World Disarmament? Conference, when it meets, will be invited to insert effective proposals font disarmament.' The Commission alsoj approved "a detailed report explain* ing the evolution of each of thai clauses, and the reasons for the re^ servations attached thereto. During the speeches, Lord Cecil) laid particular emphasis on the poinl! that the scheme as drafted contemplated no finality. The first confer* ence and the first advance were only) the prelude to greater advances later* They had created a piece of machine cry which he believed to be of thq greatest Value to the cause of dis« armament. ' Within the framework o$ the Convention the Conference would be able to carry out any degree ofj disarmament whatever. They werej going to bring into existence an mr ternational organ whose duty it would! be to watch over what they had done^ and press forward continually to fur» ther advances. Although the nexj word was with the Council of thaj League, the last word would be;-withj the peoples of the world. The Pre* paratory Commission had given then^ in the Draft Convention a great op« portunity. The question they would! have to solve in ths next few raonthaj was: Did the people wish for dis* armament? Only they could answe| that question.