Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-09-04 | Page 2 | Gloomy View Taken for Disarmament

GLOOMY VIEW TAKEN FOR DISARMAMENT LONDON Sept Sept 4 UP Gr Great at Britain took look a gloomy view today of the prospects prospect for the disarmament conference which reconvenes at Geneva six weeks week from rom today with wih leading powers strengthening their navies Germany regarded with suspicion sus ats s- s soviet oviet almost everywhere and ad Russia taking a big and mysterious part in European diplomacy Following reports of American and Japanese big navy programs it was reported that the British go government nt was considering asking aking parliament nt this fall fal to pass a navy defense act providing for construction of numerous numer nume ous new ships in the next five live years car carand and adding men to the navy nav With Wih the European political situation sita situa situation tion Uon as it is political observers save av little chance for immediate success in reducing Europe's military forces force and the popular feeling Is expressed in many newspaper stories stores here andon andon and end endon on the continent speculating on the possibility of or an eventual European wa war Russia's new diplomatic activity while apparently entirely pacific and exemplified ed by a series of sion treaties was seres watched closely because of its it possible effect of further fur fur- ther isolating Germany J j 1