ARMAMENT TRUCE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1931, Page 2

ARMAMENT TRUCE

ITALIAN PROPOSAL. WELCOMED BY BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 23. Air Baldwin, replying m tho House of Commons at question time, in the absence of the Prime Alinistor, stated with reference to the proposal o. Signor Grandi, Italy, for a truce in ..armaments, pending the meeting of the Disarmament Conference, that the United Kingdom Government had followed with care, .the developments in the Third Committee of the League of Nations Assembly with regard to the Italian proposals. Instructions had been sent to Lord Cecil yesterday to the effect that he could agree to the Naval proposals made, subject to their acceptance by all the other parities; and that he should give an undertaking on behalf of the British Government, that they would not accept the Army or any Air Force recruits for the year 1933 above their present loxv level unless unforeseen circumstances arose, He said Lord Cecil’s action xvould necessarily be governed, to a great extent, by the views and proposals of other delegates. The British Government were In cordial sympathy with the motives that had prompted tho suggestion of the Italian Delegate. It would create a favourable atmosphere for the World’s Disarmament Conference next year, and they xvould do all they could to further it.