The Archive · 1927

LORDS' DISARMAMENT DEBATE

Why the Conference at Geneva Broke Down: The Difference Over Gun Cakbres London, Nov, 16.

A. debate on disarmament was initiated in the House of Lords today by Baron Parmoor, who was Lord President of the Council in the Labour Cabinet of 1924.

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Lord Cushenden (formerly Mr. Ronald MeNeill, who assumced this title on his elevation to the Peerage), stated that no instruc-ions bad yet been drafted for the British representatives at the Geneva Disarmament Conference] being held in December. The Government was considering the whole matter.

Naval power, but he considered that the Geneva Naval Limitation Conference had been interrupted—not ended: nothing would induce him to believe, in view of the identity of British' and American interests,, that Successful negotiation was out of

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