DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1932, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

IS IT A FARCE ? VON PARPEN’S POINTED QUERY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, September 28. Von Papen, in 'a statement, declares that M. Herriofc, the French Prime LViinister’s speech on Sunday placed the facts upside down. Germany had never demanded to arm he reelf to the same extent to which France and other nations are armed. Her demands amount to nothing mor e than for armaments within the limits' of the Disarmament convention.

Germany must hav e the same freedom to adjust her armaments to her needs as is enjoyed by every other .abatel. Ihe quests is merely Germany’s parity nr rights and equal treatment at the Disarmament Conference. He.asked; “Is it any evidence of disarmament that French military expenditure has risen ICO per cent, in six years? Germany is ready now, at .before, to accept any solution of the disarmament problem compatible with liet honour and security. Gremany has waited patiently for twelve years, and ah® 'cannot wait longer alid cannot stand by and watch the Disarmament Conference falsifying the whole idea of disarmament by a wrong assessment of the disarmament f .exors and by the application of two different yardsticks to individual states.