Two Proposals Made to Provide for Direct Limitation 3 of American poli at the sessions of the Preparatory the; League of Nations The Representative, chairman the committee on naval affairs of the lower house of the Congress, Jared that Mr, Hugh Gibson, United States ambassador to Bole gium and chief of the American delegation at the Geneva arms meet i had proved himself a of British and French 'Ambassador Gibson, twice withia 10 days, has played' directly int the hands of British and Fren diplomats Uy making American disarmament proposals, the House al Chairman asserted in a state-
Geneva, May 2. animated diseassion meeting of the Disarmament sminittee this morning of to pro rosals for the limitation of war ierials: first, a German proposal for' direct - limitation frough a table showing. stocks of Arona; ad, secondly, a. French pre-Twsal' suggesting "that. budgetary Stimates should provide an indica: tion of reserve war materials, Mr. Sato (Japan), Signor. de Wan (italy) and the Czecho-Slovak and Jugoslavian delegates favoured the latter: proposal, while the Swelish delegate Favoured direct tation, which Ale. Hugh Gibsow (United States)' also ead e-bree tment brosdeasc through the press.
ten. Britten said the suggestion that trained army reserves shall not feint i computing the mil to fight, be included in a compulation of the strength of the sea powers on the "Ambassador Gibson's proposals, Rep. Britten said, "should prove ery effective in the coming British general elections, "although neither of them has the slightest hanes of acceptance by the Preparatory Disarmament Commission for many years to come, if at all.
"It must not be forgotten that the secret Anglo-French agreement of 1928, which created a storm of disapproval throughout America and Because it was inimical to t interests of the United Washington, May 1.
Press reports from Geneva to the! effect that the Disarmament Com mission has abandoned the principle of reduction of garments. in. favour tation are discredited by gibson, the chief Un 16s delegate, in a cabled reply to query from Col, Stinson, the ceretary of State Gibson rays that the only Lasis for such an allegation was the unanimous rejection of a certain Soviet amendment on a point of order. that the where made it clear that, in the amendment in question, its position in regard to the redvetion of armaments was in no way prejudiced—Reuter. contained the very clause' which "now is sponsored by the American Ambassador, at Geneva."
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