DOWN TO BUSINESS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 11

DOWN TO BUSINESS

DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE

BRITISH PROPOSALS v

(Britlsh'Offlclal Wireless.)

(Beeeived 11th February, 11 ajn.)'

BTTGBY, lQth February.

Tie nrgent plea, for early discussions by, the Disarmament Conference made at Geneva yesterday .by/ Captain Anthony Eden, British delegate, produced a sympathetic response from many delegates. Captain Eden emphasised that the programme of wort submitted by the United Kingdom delegation was in no sense a ne^ statement of policy, but was designed solely to facilitate and accelerate procedure. There weraialready sufficient plans "before the Conference, and most of these had already J>een adequately examined from a .technical viewpoint to enable the Conference to now proceed to decisions.' -

The British programme of "work took account of those -who Insisted upon: the connection 'between security and disarmament ana invited a discussion of the security position of.-tie Prencl Plan, while at tie same time providing for discussion of other proposals made to the; Conference. The time had notvcome for Governments to shoulder their responsibilities and, facing realities, to weigh the risks against the ine'omparably greater danger of allowing the Conference to fail.