The Archive · 1935

British Blamed for Air Disarmament Failure

London, Oct. 30, "The British Government shaula propose the abolition, by general agreement, of the private manufacture of armaments" declared Mr. P. Noel Baker at a meeting to-day of the Royal Commission on the Manufacture of Arms.

Mr, Baker, who was secretary te: Mr. Arthur Henderson when the ta! statesman was chairman of the Disarmament Conference, said that the conference had very nearly come Jan agreement for the abolition. of Aerial bombing and for the inter national control of civil aviation.

"Tt was the obstructionist policy of the British technical experts to the adoption of any practical plan whi wag principally Tesponsible for the failure of the conference to secure total air disarmament," asserted Mr.

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