DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1933, Page 6

DISARMAMENT

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OAPT. EDEN’S ANNOUNCEMENT

(British Officiil Wireless.)

RUGBY, February 1(5

When the General .Commission of the Disarmament Conference considered .the- British proposals for the abolition of military aviation and the control of civil aviation, Captain Eden maintained that unless air developments resulted, it would »bring stark tragedy in its train.” The international . control of civil aviation was neresoairy Jto jmvke- pctesibl-8 the abolition of aerial armaments and the removal of the air bombing menace.

The American: delegate, Air Gibson, said. that 'its peculiar geographical position made the application o,f the pi-coos-rd control neither feasible nor desirable in the United" States. A committee of eighteen members was appointed to draw tup questions of principle contained in tine original proposals and subsequent amendments. "

A FRANCO-GERMAN CLASH

GENEVA, February 17

' A . clakh occurred at the Disarmament • Conference between French and Ocriran delegates. Al. Pierre Cot, the French Foreign Under-Secretary, contended that a professional army was more adapted for an offensive than a. militia. He denied that the short term army system encouraged militarism. On the eoidrary, 110 said, associations like-the Brown Shirts and the Stahl helms fostered it-.'

Herr Nadollny (Germany) • dock-red that ho .could not accept even a shadow’ of; reproach against Germany.