DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1933, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

EUROPEAN TALKS

HOPE HELD FOR AGREEMENT.

(Per British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 8. Disarmament questions were discussed when .Mr A. Henderson (president of the Disarmament Conference) called at the Foreign Office for a meeting with Sir J-olm Simon in pursuance of a -policy that was approved by the Bureau of the Conference in Geneva last month.

Exchanges are taking place, through diplomatic channels, in various European in an effort to advance the work of the conference. Interviewed, Mr Henderson took a grave view of the present situation. He said that the whole collective peace system was m danger. He expressed the hope that- the exchanges now taking place through diplomatic channels, would -make an international agreement possible.

FRANCE’S ATTITUDE TO LEAGUE PARIS, December 8. M. Paul Bon-cour <c a tegoi’ically informed the Chamber of Deputies that the League will tern ain the • basis of France’s policy* “We shall not allow a breach therein and shall oppose any attempt to create a hegemony within the League” he said. “All our ententes and pacts are indissolubly bound up with the League mechanism.” WAR VETERAN’S EMBITTERED. STRATFORD (Ontario), Dec. 8. Twenty-one members of the Cana-, dian Legion of War Veterans, declaring that the great war was fought in vain, adopted ;a resolution to send back to the Finance 'Ministers of Allied countries the medals awarded to each man, the medals to be accompanied by a note declaring : ‘‘Nationalism flourishes. Greed is rampant. Armaments menace the homes, and wa>’ impends. Nothing remains of wartime ideals but medals, memories and war debts. FRANCE AND GERMANY. PARIS, December 9. M. Pertinax,”' writing in “L’Echo de 'Paris,” says that M. P.oncet, French (Ambassador,, has been instructed to tell Chancellor -Hitler that the latter'-s demands on the matter of .armaments equality are not capable of leading to a frank agreement ~on disarmament. THE FUTURE OF GENEVA. 'CHANCELLOR HITLER’S DEMANDS. (Received this d.nv at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON,' December 10. The "Express’ ” political -correspondent says that the 'Cabinet committee on disarmament will hold an almost- continuous session this week, ministers making a strong effort to evolve a convention which will include Britain, France, Italy, Germany and United States. f

AH hope of the Geneva Disarmament Conference will be '.abandoned if the convention results from present efforts, and no more will be heard of the Geneva Conferenhce.

Chancellor Hitler’s demands are for an army of three hundred thousand, an adequate force of aeroplanes, and an unspecified number of 6-inch gurus. Neither France nor Italy i s likely to aereo to Hitler’s proposals in their present form.