DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1933, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

BRITISH POLICY I RESTATEMENT TO BE MADE (United Press Association—By -Electric Telegraph— Copyright). hLONDON, October 27. Ihe “Morning Post’s’', political correspondent leai;ns that the uovernnient intends, in the near iutuie, to make an important.,restatement of tiie British disarmament policy. : The decision of the Bureau of the. Disarm ament Conference, to recommend that the General .Commission, which meets at Geneva, should be adjourned until December 4, is genera 1V viy-rovea oy the press. The determination of. the various Governments to continue the work of the Conference; and to achieve an agreed convention on the basis of the British draft plan, was given full expression at the- Commission. The. Bureau will-meet again, to considerthe procedure. It is proposed that the draft convention be brought into harmony, with the various amendments suggested' and ‘discussed since ■the summer 1 adjournment.' Mr Henderson will continue conversations and exchanges of view for this pur-

pose. ' •' <■> ■■ Captain - Eden, the Cliiof British delegate, in accepting the proposals, sajd his Government' was firmly resolved to continue ' its action, and would do all in its power to arrive at a convention, He expressed approval of. the proposed adjournment, While it was quite clear the withdrawal of the German delegation could 'not .be without' -,-effect' on - : the Conference, the view, of the British .Government was that, however much that event was deplored, it-could, not stop their work. Delegations must not waste time in contemplation of the past, but must deal with the future, and should not be, distracted from the object of the Conference. The most effective method must be chosen, and that was the Bureau’s task. * The representatives of several other nations also •»• expressed approval of Mr Henderson’s proposal. v It remains for the Bureau to draw un a programme of the'work to be followed, during the General Commisson’s adjournment. '