London, Feb. 8.
The British Government is doing their utmost to promote preparations for a world peace conference, the House of Commons was told today by Mr. Neville: Chamberlain, the Prime Minister.
The statement was made in response to an Opposition question regarding the Government's attitude toward holding an open peace conference directed at remedying economical, financial and political conditions likely to lead to war.—United Press.
Washington, Feb. 8.
Plans for President Roosevelt to call an international disarmament conference were launched in Congress today coincident with the British Prime Minister's announcement in the House of Commons that his Government was attempting to pave the way for an international peace conference, Mr. Louis Ludlow, Democratic Representative of Indiana, addressed a letter to the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull proposing that the United States arrange a world naval conference to discuss arms limitations. The letter was sent to Mr. Hull shortly after Senator William H. King, Democrat of Utah, had announced he would sponsor a Senate resolution asking the President to attempt to obtain an international agreement for the reduction and limitation of arms.—United Press,
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