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Show CHILA LAUNCHES US REDUCTIONS EVERY COUNTRY IN SOUTH AMERICA AM-ERICA TO BE INCLUDED IN DISCUSSION IF APPROVED Propowl Mad to Make Lower Arm mente Part In Agenda at 8a n-. n-. tiago Conference to Be Held Next Week Washington. First steps have been taken to extend limitation of armament arma-ment to LatJn America, It was learned authoritatively Thursday. An agreement between the republics repub-lics from the Rio Grande to Cape Ilorn to limit arrmament Is about to be proposed by Chile and already the plan has been informally discussed- The Chilean proposal is that the question of limitation of armament be taken up at the fifth Pan-American, conference to be held at Santiago next March. If this proposal is approved, the Santiago conference will be in efTect another international disarmament conference. The Chilean foreign office, it was loomed, has communicated to tho Chilean embassy here the desire of thnt government to initiate a discus-sion discus-sion of plans for limitation of armament arma-ment in Latin America, at the Santiago San-tiago conference. The has been instructed to sound out the question here. Ambassador Don Beltran Mathleu has already discussed the plan informally infor-mally with Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general of the I'an-American union. It Is understood Mathleu will shortly propose that the question of extending llmitalon of armament to Latin America Amer-ica be included in the agenda for the conference. i If the commission on revision of program for the conference approves the inclusion of limitation of arma. went in lb agenda it will then 1h pt before the governing board of the Pan-Americnn Pan-Americnn union and with unanimous favorable action by that body consideration consid-eration of the question will be assured These negotiations are expected to be completed within the next tliree weeks. The present views of the Chilean government are that limitation of armament ar-mament in Latin America should be aachieved through a reduction and limitation of the expenditures by the jarrious countries, this method being preferred to a ship by ship, or gun by gun reduction and limitation. The Washington naval limitation treaty provides for scrapping and limitation lim-itation in terms of sips, but it is believed be-lieved that the Chilean plan would be wiser for Latin America, as the purely financial reduction and limitation limita-tion would afford an immediate economic econ-omic benefit By this method also, on agreement could be extended automatically auto-matically to both militatry and naval armaments. It is not the Intention to include the Unitetd States In any Pan-American agreemen on limltaiton of armament, for fear it would upset this country's relations with the other powers in the , Washington naval disarmament treaty. |