GENEVA SESSION.
DISARMAMENT COMMISSION,
CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECTS. (Australian Press Association.—United Service.) GENEVA, Sept. 19. _ Viscount Cecil encountered opposition when he re-opened controversial subjects at the meeting of the League’s Disarmament Commission to-day. Viscount Cecil desired the commission to consider the limitation of materials, personnel and trained reserves of the army and navy budgets, and also international control and enforcement of the Disarmament Treaty. In an impassioned address, Viscount Cecil stated: “If the draft treaty includes no reduction or limitation of material, we are presenting a hungering world not with bread, but with a stone and something also of almost no 'practical value. There is no question of compulsion; the work must be done by collaboration and co-operation. If any Power is not prepared to take a substantial step, then others will only submit that this might be the end of the disarmament scheme, which is the only direct and positive safeguard against war. It is the cornerstone of the edifice of peace.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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161GENEVA SESSION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 250, 20 September 1929, Page 7
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