DISARMAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 34, 10 February 1933, Page 7

DISARMAMENT

PROGRESS. TOO SLOW

BRITAIN URGES DISPATCH

TIME FOE DECISIONS

(British Official Wlrekss.) (Received 10th February, noon.) RUGBY, 9th February. Questioned regarding the recent British suggestions for speeding up and making effective the programme of work at the Disarmament Conference, Mr. MaeDonald said that so far as~it was concerned, it remained the practical and immediate objective' of the Government to secure a reduction of all the forces of the leading Powers to the British level, to be followed by a further all-round reduction of onethird and a limitation of the unladen weight 6f military and naval aircraft. ' A desire to see the Disarmament Conference speeded up was expressed by Captain Eden, the British Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, at Geneva to-day when the Commission mot to consider the Conference agenda. "We are becoming anxious at the slow progress of the Conference," he said. "Unless substantial decisions can be reached within the next few weeks, t^e prospects for the Conference must become steadily darker. Britain believes that the present session should mark the entry upon a ne,w phase of the Conference, one of decisions. Governments must shoulder their responsibilities and face realities. "

Mr. Arthur Henderson, Chairman of the Conference, earlier declared that there had been enough general discussion, and tho time had come to get down to concrete proposals.