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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 771, 18 September 1929, Page 9

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ANCIENT BOGEY RAISED AGAIN ANGLO-SAXON SUPREMACY Australian and V. Z. Press Association) Reed. 10 a.m. PARIS, Tuesday. The newspapers are disturbed in view of Mr. MacDonald's forthcoming conference with President Hoover, some ventilating a fear that the negotiations will result in a formula being presented to France, Italy and Japan in a take-it-or-leave-it spirit. "L'lntransigeant,” particularly dwelling on this, raises the old bogey that the Anglo-Saxons are aiming at worldwide supremacy. A message from Geneva says some stir among the representatives of those countries where conscription is in force was caused by the circulation of a motion by Viscount Cecil. This urged the Preparatory Com- i mission on Disarmament of the League 1 of Nations to consider the limitation of land, sea and aerial material and ■ personnel, including the restriction of numbers and the period of training. Tile motion involves the thorny question of trained reserves which France does not welcome. She thinks i it entails going back on the previous British acceptance, under protest, dur-1 ing the Anglo-French naval discussions. of the French view—the exclusion of reserves. Lord Cecil’s idea is to induce a fresh attempt to find a formula with which to approach land and air armaments similar to the “yardstick” in the case of the Anglo-American naval negotiations.