DISARMAMENT TALK

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1933, Page 5

DISARMAMENT TALK

DEFINITION of AGGRESSION

RUSSIAN VIEW ADOPTED

(United Press Associati-u —By Electric Tel°graph —Copyright.)

The Security Committee of the Disarmament Conference has adopted the Russian definition of rn aggi e s s' j rThe definition is as follows: An aggressor is, first, a nation which declares war ; secondly, one which invades the territory of another stale without any declaration of war ; thirdly one which establishes a Urtval blockade against another state; fourthly, one which bombards the territory of a neighbouring state; fifthly, one which establishes land, naval or air forces 'in the territory of another state without that state’s permission.

FRANCE AND AMERICA.

PARIS, May 17

The Foreign Office spokesman indicates that France is ready to accept the major provisions of Mr MacDonald’s plan. Mr Roosevelt’s omission to announce America’s co-operation in guarantees of peace dominates the French comments. Rightist organs express, the opinion that it had been better to have allowed Hitler to rattle the saore, leaving the world in no doubt regaicintr Germany’s -designs. M r Roosevelt’s allusion to responsibility for failure is regarded, in official circles, as a gratuitous threat *o France, if she refused to see eye to eye with Britain and America.