CHALLENGE TO SOVIET

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 1

CHALLENGE TO SOVIET

Cushendun Speaks Out “MAKERS OF CIVIL STRIFE” LORD CUSHENDUN, British delegate to the Preparatory Disarmament Committee, dramatically challenged M. Litvinoff (Russia), assailing the Soviet as a maker of civil strife. BrirksA Wireless—Press Assn. —Copyright

At the opening of the Disarmament ’Omission at Geneva this afternoon, rd Cushendun. delegate of Britain, od the first, principle of the Russian ,rc iect, namely, complete disarmaae °t. "tonld be accepted by everyone >n ideal, and he was certain no was prepared to reply in the - titive to the principle that cornice disarmament w'as the aim of all; ** at tlle same time, he thought it a impossible, and he would have M. LitvincfT, Russia, to have °*° f * 10w this might be done. fur as Great Britain was conEbe was * n favour of disarm3tT there were many questions ec ided first, and this was the why he suggested that the 81a h plan should be discussed so tTtat was good in it might be 0 and made use of by the com“jtsh ,9 u ®henduu objected that #4 sot their 63 articles, the Soviet ■ s-iju °? c ® recognise the League of flan,Jr.™ their project. The Rusti t * lat at* disputes should h h°t by the Council of the h»tio na i but by a permanent inter- *** an “® ml ttee of control. This 1 entirely new body. [ to M. Litvinoff, Lord I <inj t . un sa 'd there were two I . beace , as there were two I ~,io "»i T here was inter : I !lv 'l wa ar ' an “ c,v 'l war; and I th r Was more horrible. I Soviet really going to I tHinVd P ol 'ey? Had it now I h «n»i* aaintt civil war as well I *t, n n, t international war? I '*'* win.* * on ß er going to interI th * affairs of other I U I Was ready io make such a

change, he was sure it would, recognise that its attitude was one of the

-reatest obstacles to the far-reaching disarmament proposals which the Soviet itself had made.—A. and N.Z.

TURKEY’S WAY TO PEACE PROPOSALS FOR SECURITY league and disarmament By Cable-Press Association— Copyright. GENEVA, Monday. Following the example delegate to the sittings of the Prepar c— c: Turkish e e . d the setting to-day said be wei oduce d up of the committee. » based detailed proposals for aecuii y

upon conciliation, security and nonaggression treaties. Rushdi Bey said Turkey, like other countries, sought the ideal of security achieved through a federation of nations imposing peace, but that at present was impossible. Therefore, she sought relative security, as the best obtainable, through bilateral and multilateral treaties and non-aggres-sion and neutrality pacts surrounded by guarantees. A member State of the League should, however, be released from pledges of non-aggression as soon as another State became an aggressor. RUSSIA AND ARMS The Russian delegate, Litvinoff, followed with a recapitulation of what he considered to be the League’s failures in the direction of disarmament. He reiterated that the Soviet was ready to abolish armed forces directly the other nations agreed to do the same. Litvinoff insisted that the committee should decide definitely whether the League accepts the principle of complete disarmament, and whether it is prepared to carry out within one year the first stage of it, which would be sufficient, he said, to render war impossible. Count Bernstorff (Germany) welcomed the Russian proposals. The committee then adjourned.—A. and N.Z.