ARMS CONFERENCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 674, 28 October 1933, Page 5

ARMS CONFERENCE

■Press Assn.-

[ LEAVE PAST BEHIND AND CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE BRITAIN'S ADVICE

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H Geneva, Oct. 24. B The General Commission of the ■Disarmament Conference decided at ■Geneva to-day to adjourn until DeHcember 4. | Captain R. A. Eden (Britain) expressed approval of the proposed short adjournment and remarked that tvhile it was quite clear the withjlrawal of the German delegation feould not be without effect 011 the proceedings of the Conference, the piew of the British Government was, however mueh that event was sineerely deplored, it could not stop their work. He urged the delegations not. to waste time in contemplation bf the past but to deal with the futjire. They should not be distracted from the object "of the Conference. rhe most effective method must be bhosen, and that was the Bureau's task. ' The representatives of several other nations also expressed approval of Mr. Henderson's proposal. • It remains for the Bureau to draw up the programme of work to be foliowed during the General Commission's adjournment. r The Council of the League of Nations appointed the Irish delegate to the League of Nations, Mr. Sean Lester, to be High Commissioner of Danzig. Prior to the meeting of the General Commission the Bureau met. The proposal that the Conference should adjourn until December 4 was generally approved by the press. Will Continue Work The determination of the various Governments to continue the work of the Conference and achieve an agreed convention on the basis of the British draft plan was given full expression. The Bureau will meet again to consider future procedure. It is proposed that the draft convention be brought into harmony with various amendments suggested and discussed since the summer adjournment. Mr. Henderson, the chairman, will continue his conversations and exchanges of views for this purpose. Captain R. A. Eden, the chief British delegate in accepting the chairman's proposals, said his Government was firmly resolved to continue its action and would do all in its power to arrive at a convention.