Show CRISIS r r i SEEN IN MAY i ii Dramatic Showdown Is Expected Ex i. i on 23 rd of Next Month I t 1934 by the Ule Associated Press GENEVA April League 20 of na circles for forecast ast today a dramaTic drama tic showdown wn on disarmament on May 23 That is the date when representatives nta tives ot of the nations in the world disarmament dis armament conference will return to Geneva in full session to attempt to catch and pull together the thc flying of the sided many problem of firms controL There are even unconfirmed rue ru ors that France ma may Insist upon an Investigation of German armament before consenting to negotiate an any of a disarmament treaty I But the differences of France Germany Gee Ger- many and Great Britain form but butone one ne section of the problem as a whole Today a tendency was seen In Geneva to link what one official called the disturbed disarmament situation wIth developments in the far east cast growing out of the newly newly- stated Japanese policy that western powers must keep hands off olf China Some progress was seen by well well- Informed sources here in the British white paper revelation on at London Thursday that Germany had cx cx- pressed a willingness to postpone reductions reductions re- re of armaments by ot outer cr pow irs r. r for five lve years ears This stand taken in a previously unrevealed note to Great Britain it isas a. a stated here may reduce the apprehension apprehensions ap- ap of France regarding Ger r- r arms |