EUROPEAN TALKS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1933, Page 5

EUROPEAN TALKS

ON DISARMAMENT

APPARENT LITTLE SUCCESS. (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, July 21. The President of the Disarmament Conference, lit. Hon. Henderson, lias returned to London, after having had consul tan oils at Paris, .Rome, Berlin, Prague and Munich. He returns bringing cheerless impressions. The Disarmament Continence burrcAu meets sat Genera- 011 September 20th, to -hear Mr Henderson’s* report, but it is doubtful whether any progress is coming in the autumn. The Franco-German divergencies are still the chief obstacle. The problem or Franco-Italian parity remain s unsolved. Messages ifronr Paris indicate that the French insist that any progress (With disarmament will be impossible without effective armament control, on which France will not compromise, because she is convinced that Germany is re-arming to-day on a larger scale, and with greater speed, than she has done at any time since the war. France will, therefore, refuse to disarm without an effective and dependable system of arms control, and inspection.

Moreover, France will Insist that any such system must- bo given a trial for a period, Chancellor Hitler, during hig talk with Mi' Henderson, is understood to have flatly rejected the trial period idea, which attitude does not surprise the French, who point out that any real system of -control would be bound to reveal Germany’s secret armaments, wherefore Germany naturally wishes to disarm France, even before such control is cstalished.