Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-28 | Page 1 | France Pleads for Arms Pact

FRANCE PLEADS FOR ARMS PACT I Conference Must Not Close in Failure Warns GENEVA GENEV A Ia 1 May 28 rA P A min last ute plea not pot to 10 let the disarmament conference i fail h w was was- deli delivered red to to the conference steering committee toda today b by jy Louis French foreign I minister I There can be no question of oC clos cbs jag ing ng the conference declared at U a committee session which which which-ap approved ap- ap proved the action of or the chairman Arthur Henderson ender on in calling the parey par par- Ie Icy ey for lor tomorrow I Henderson warned the committee members that the conference has reached a critical stage and demanded that hat the spirit of ot defeatism be su sup sup- pre pre- sed Never has a an international conclave con con- clave dave been accompanied by such tenseness and such confusion Premier Mussolini's speech in Rome referring to the possibility of war var served to increase e the pessi pessi- It was as rumored that Italy might bolt from the conference France wants a 1 public showdown in ill n the conference itself and is s ready to o discuss a European pact of mutual assistance which Maxim Litvinoff Russian foreign loreign commissar probably will vill recommend A French spokesman said A pact of oC guarantees will depend for its success suc ce- ce cess largely largel on the attitude of oC Rusia Russia Rus- Rus sia ia and the United States who are the he great producers of raw material materia t I