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Show J ARMS PARLEY ALTERS PLANS I Commission Directed By Viscount' j Cecil Meets Attitude of U. S. 1 ' Geneva. The preparatory cammis-, cammis-, sion on disarmament at a private session ses-sion took steps lo prevent the confer-mce confer-mce from becoming a purely league f nations affairs. With a view to meeting the Ameri-:an Ameri-:an attitude toward the conference, Viscount Cecil, the British delegate moyed that two subcommittees of the i commission he appointed, to which j all states are entitled to name repre-j repre-j sentatives. One of these committees will handle military, naval and air I problems, and the other will handle j the general economic problem. I The original plan of the league ' council was to turn over detailed disarmament dis-armament studies to league bodies, to ' which nonleague countries, such as the United States, would be entitled to i send representatives, i The United States, however, inform- ed the league that, when it accepted : the invitation to the conference, it did not accept any plan which virtaully would take matters out of the hands of the preparatory commission, i Tuesday's action is felt to empha-i empha-i si?e the soverk'n character of the commission, and when the commission is not in session its problems will be in the hands of its own subcommittee and not in the hands of the league bodies. Senor Coriann of Spain has been appointed ap-pointed chairman of the military subcommittee sub-committee and Senor Euero of Uruguay Uru-guay has been appointed chairman of the general economic subcommittee. subcommit-tee. i |
