Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-07-13 | Page 12 | League Divided on Question of Disarmament

LEAGUEDIVIDED 0.1 QUESTION OF I'DISAIfflEIlT Special Committee Named ; to Draft General Plan . for All Members Has ' Failed in Purpose - SsBBBBaBBBaaaaB GENEVA, July 11 (By A. P.) . The league of nations appears to fea moving toward a deadlock in lta, efforts to brine about a general reduction re-duction tat armamenta. The spe-tl spe-tl committee that ni to draft, fur. proposal to all league members. general treaty to that and, with a juutual pact of guarantee to give effort of Article It of the covenant. u failed to aecomplleh any thins. U.li divided between the Cecil pro-Jwt pro-Jwt for a ceneral guarantee pact, and a French aubetltute providing for limited agreementa between two or more membera. The success of any aura project calls lorthe assurance of security " 'I u such "countries ae Prance end Poland, which make It a requisite condition to any reduction In arm-amenta. arm-amenta. The French delegation tn-aiete tn-aiete that the Cecil project tor a general guarantee pact doea not give that security because several of the smaller members of the tragus, such aa Swltssrland, Xen-. Xen-. Iiiark. Norway and Sweden, have made It clesr that they will remain outside of It. Theee countries are not counted upon to furnish military mili-tary aid under such an agreement, hut their absence from the combination, combi-nation, it is argued, would make It impossible to apply the blockade to Ormany. tor Instance, and, ander the league covenant, the blockade Is the (Irst weapon that would be used against a prospective aggressor. aggres-sor. Oecll and his friends point out that ths French project for regional asreements between tiro or mora members tends only to the perpetuation perpet-uation of the old eystem of alliances and the development of groupo of powers hostile to one another, such as existed before the World war. The permanent military commission commis-sion of the league, which pronounced pro-nounced the Cecil plan is unlikely to afford the assurance of prompt and efficient help for a menaced member that would Justify It In reducing re-ducing Its armament, has been railed upon to giro its opinion of the French plan. An earnest effort will be made to reach a compromise between the two projects, but falling that, a strong drive will be msde In the assembly as-sembly In September to reach a decision de-cision as to the application of the blockade, under the covenant.