Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-06-15 | Page 3 | Senate Okehs Arms Treaty

SENATE TE ARMS TREATY V Nine Nine- Year Old Year Old Geneva Pact Bears Signatures of 22 Nations WASHINGTON June 15 P The Thc The senate today rati ratified the nine year old Geneva treaty providing pro for lor strict supervision of international traffic in arms ammunition m and implements of war A reservation was attached however how ever that the other nine principal arms producing countries the countries the British British Brit Brit- ish empire Belgium France orance Germany Ger Ger- many Italy Japan Soviet Russia Slovakia Czecho-Slovakia and Sweden must Sweden must approve the pact before it takes effect ef ef- ef feet as to o the United states Slates two Twenty two nations signed the treat treaty at Geneva June JUn 17 17 1925 Pres Coolidge Hoover and Roosevelt Roose Booze velt urged ratification The major provisions of the pact would limit the export of ot arms and other w war r materials to the needs of the importing government or with the consent ot of such government for forthe forthe forthe the supply of or a public authority subordinate to it V A second re reservation approved offered of of- by Senator King D D. Utah declared nothing in the treaty shall shalbe be interpreted as denying the sovereign sovereign eign rights of Persia to the P Persian gulf Eul and the waters thereof WASHINGTON June 15 P Thc JP-Thc The q question of ot whether the United States shall shrill seize worth of ol munitions muni sold to Bolivia for the Chaco jungle war depended d today on the exact time of the sales If It the sales contracts were signed after p. p m. m May 28 when President President dent Roosevelt forbade sale of arms arias for export to Paraguay and Bolivia the munitions be may seized