The Archive · 1924

Germany Wants Her Guns

Berlin, July 30, The Government have informed the Secretariat of the League of Nations of their disagreement with the mutual guarantee pact as being ill-fitted to assure universal security and limitation of armaments. They point out that a totally dis armed Germany would be in an impossible position. The Government submit the alternative sugges-jon that, instead of piling treaties and agreements subsidiary to the Covenant, the latter itself should be more thoroughly developed, that violent settlement of disputes should be prohibited, that an arbitration court for political disputes should be instituted and, especially, that disarmament should be compulsory for all State, They add that Germany would then be ready to enter the society of nations and ce-operate in the preservation of peace—Reuter.

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