Show ONLY lY PEACETIME ARMS LIMITATION N NIS IS AGREED UPON Disarmament Body Decides Decides De De- Against Interfering Interfering ing With War Strength PROBLEM ADMITTED TO BE DIFFICULT i Economic and Population Factors Ent Enter r Discussions Discussions Discussions Discus Discus- at Geneva Meet GENI GE M C AP Only P Only peacetime can be Ibe limited him lim b by any n Je of nations This p provisional vl lo I agreement was reached at t today tO Y i s session of oi of the I preparatory r rr rma disarmament rt nt commission commis commis- sion Io i d de decided ded that it was was' impracticable impracticable im Jm- im- im practicable at the present moment to think of reducing the ultimate war ar strength of countries In ratifying this conclusion how how- ever the commission agreed to a significant reservation b by M. M Paul- Paul of France This was to the effect that when the subcommittee subcommittee frames the exact formula it it must recognize that estimated re reductions reductions re- re dUc ons in peacetime peace armaments should take Int into account the mili mill military tary economic and and geographical f factors upon which the the wartime power depends and also the rapidity rapidity rapid rapid- ity fly with which assistance could be afforded to a state if It attacked HARD lARD PROBLEM Thus the admission Is made at atthe atthe atthe the very outset of the Geneva de deliberations deliberations de- de liberations that reduction of armaments arma arma- meats ments is an exceedingly complicated complicated complicated problem which cannot be solved in terms of numbers of troops and guns Not Kot only economIc economic economic eco eco- and population factors factors' must be taken into consideration but also in the opInion of France and some other tation atlo r ri tc j 6 re must depend to td a 1 erable degree on the extent of the effective eff cUve aid which can an be rushed to an attacked st state te through op operation operation operation op- op of a scheme of mutual as as- as NAME COMMITTEE The c commission decided d to appoint appoInt appoint ap ap- ap- ap point a drafting committee whIch which after further general discussion will recast and clarify the agenda and endeavor to separate tecI technical nl al military questions from purely po- po po political political problems The committee Includes M. M Paul of l France rance Hugh Gibson of the United States Lord Cecil of Great Britain General Marinis of or Italy M. M Matsuda Matsuda Mat- Mat j suda of Japan Count von Bernstorff Bernstorff Bern- Bern of Germany German Senor Perez of Argentina M. M de of ot Bel- Bel glum and M. M of Poland |