DISASTER TO WORLD

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 7

DISASTER TO WORLD

IP CONFERENCE PAILS

WORK MUST CONTINUE

, (British Official Wireless.) (Received October 27, 11a.m.} BUGBY, October 26. The General Commission of the Disarmament Conference decided at Geneva today to adjourn until December 4. In putting forward the proposal to this effect the chairman (Mr. Arthur Henderson) emphasised that the Conference must continue its "work to arrive at a convention founded on the British, draft, which would satisfy public opinion. If the ■ Conference failed it would be a disaster for the whole world. Ho recalled that the Bureau favoured adjournment until December 4 in order to give time to smooth out the existing divergencies of opinion. The British Under-Seeretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden) expressed approval of the proposed short adjournment, and remarked that while it was quite clear that the withdrawal of .the- German delegation could, not be without effect on the proceedings of the Conference, the view of the British Government, was that, however much that event was sincerely deplored, it could not stop their work. He urged that the delegations must not waste time in tho contemplation of the past, but must deal with the future, and should not be distracted from the object of the Conference. The most effective method must be chosen, and that was the Bureau's task. < Representatives of several other nations also expressed approval of Mr. Henderson's proposal. ~ It remains for tho Bureau to draw up tho programme of work to be'followed during the General Commission's adjournment. The determination of the various Governments to continue the work of tho Conference, and to achieve an agreed convention on the basis of the British draft plan was given full expression at yesterday's meeting of the 'Bureau. It. is proposed that the Draft Convention' should be brought into harmony with the various amendments suggested'and discussed sirieo the summer adjournment. Mr. . Arthur Henderson will continue conversations and exchanges of views for this purpose. Mr. Anthony Eden, the chief British delegate, in accepting the chairman's proposals, said that his Government was firmly resolved to continue its action, and would do all in its power to arrive at a convention.