Severe Castigation of the Sovi and Its Proposals by the British Delegate: A Pertinent Question on Civil War Geneva, Mar. 19.
Lord Cushenden pointed out that The Turkish Delegation to the i Proparatory Disarmament Confer-fence, headed by the Foreign Com-fender were accepted, it would be missar, Tewfk Rushdi Bey, arrived necessary to repeal the Covenant of at Geneva to-day. They were the League. greeted al the station by n repre-'The Soviet proposal, he added, sentative of Corarade Litvinoff, the must be submitted to the Govern. head of the Russian Delegation. ments represented on the Prepara-'The Turkish delegates will attend tory Disarmament Commission as the meeting of the Commission this they would necessarily wish to afternoon, when the Soviet plan of confer with their technical experts. complete disarmament is expected Consequently a full discussion could be discussed. not occur during the present session, Movement to Outlaw War "Mar, 19, Sensation in the Assembly Later.
At the sitting of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission here this afternoon the head of the Turkish delegation, Tewhik Rushdi Bey de-eloped the view of the Turkish Government.on disarmament, This was more moderate and more prac-ticul than the Soviet phu, For example, Rushdi Bey expressed the pinion that treaties of non-aggression, accompanied by a neutrality elnuse, would afford certain mea~ fave of security, The head of the Soviet delegation, Comrade Litvinoff, delivered Jengthy statement reviewing Soviet plan, He said that the So-vict was ready to abolish its armed forces when other countries were ready to do so.
Comrade Litvinoff referred to the proposal of the United States Secro~ tary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, to outlaw war.' "The Soviet. dolegation," he declared, "considers that it is entitled to count on the special support of the Government which is now publicly making proposals to prohibit war, The sincerity of its Proposal could not be more convineingly confirmed than by the adhere ence of its authors to the So raft convention Yor complete dis armament." his Does the Preparatory Disaythament Committee base its further efforts on the principle of complete disarmament during the eried proposed by the Soviet Gov-the Preparatory Dis armament Committee prepared to carry out the first stage of disarma~ ment $0 as to make the conduct of war, if not an absolute impossibility, anyhow a very dificult thing, in a year's time?"
'A general discussion followed in which Count von Bernstorit (Ger-en any) supported some of the Russian proposals.
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