| Show SOVIETS TOSS PEACE BOMB INTO GENEVA CONFERENCES Abolition of All Land Writer Water and Air Forces Is New Proposition I DELEGATES DELEGATES SMILE S Earnest Discussion Later Follows Drastic Suggestions GENEVA GENIVA Switzerland Nov 30 0 By By The Tho Associated Press Iress Soviet SO j t Russia today toda threw throw a a. peace bomb bom into the tho opening session o othe of the preparatory prep disarmament com corn commission mission by I. I y formally proposing th the complete abolition of all cit land marine and air forces Admitting that the soviet project was a II radical suggestion Maxim Litvinoff chief of tho the soviet dele dele- delegation sat gallon called for the tha dissolution o of oC all oil land sea sell and air forces and th the non admittance of oC their existence In any concealed form whatsoever Tho The proposal al caused u II profound sensation ut sit tho the conference al although ci- ci though many delegates were sec seen Been to smile as it If 1 they considered th the tho scheme moro more than hats Utopian as Lit Lit- Litvinoff developed the sweeping soviet project TUnES FEATURES r Tho Russian HU delegate submitted as tho ho other cardinal points of ot th the project that all alt weapons and mill tury amy supplies means lot for chemical warfare and all other material forms of armament be destroyed that list all warships military and air air- aircraft craft be Ie scrapped and that the 85 tern tens of calling up citizens for mill mili- military tory tury training bo be discontinued The Tho soviet delegation introduced a resolution calling for the time Imme- Imme Immediate diate working out in iii detail ut of a draft convention fur for complete en- en eral oral disarmament on principles principle submitted by them The rhe resolution time tion also provided for tor the con oca convocation lion tion of a II disarmament conference not later than March 1918 19 8 Scrap Scrap- pin p warships all warships s and de do- of oC all fortresses if It ac cc- copied by Ly tho powers power would b be carried out in a a. period of from on onto ono one onoto oneto to four years cars under the tho sovIet scheme Armed force Is a weapon In th the hands of or the great powers for tor th the oppression of peoples in small somalI and colonial countries and tIme the com cons completo completo pleto pieto abolition of armaments is a at present tho only real means o of guaranteeing security and afford arford- affording affordIng ing a n. guarantee against the out out- outbreak outbreak break brenk of war evar was one of the striking phrases In the soviet reso- reso lotion lution STRIKING SE Another striking phrase was WIlS that tha tile the existence of armaments anc and their tendency to to growth by their heir very nature Inevitably lead head to to armed conflicts between nations diverting the workers and peasants from peaceful productive labor an and bringing in a train of countless des des- destitute Tho The Russians desired a draft convention framed immediately they did not favor waiting for fOL ad ad- additional international security t a question quest which is very ery close to the hearts of many European nations nation particularly France BORAH II OUTDONE After introduction of the Rus nus- Russian elan sian resolution the forenoon ses sea session slon sion of the commission adjourned but not before beCore Dr J. J J J. J J Loudon 01 oc Holland who presided had dc do- declared dared that it was clear cI ar that heat the difference e between the Ice Russian viewpoint and aimS that of the other rations was not In lie its aim aloe but In Its method of of the lie problem rho The delegates to the time conference left kIt tho the conference hall hail In earnest discussion of the he soviet plan which one ono called a i peace bomb boost er r remarked that the scheme goes further than the project for the outlawry of war ar which Senator and an 1 other oIlier Americans have been I. I een advocating because Lecause It entails the tue abolishment of oC means oceans of oC mak mak- making log ing Will war The lice disbanding of or armies navies the tho dismantling of ammunition tion ion factories mid med un l the time discontinuance discontinuance of military service The Limo delegates delegat s also 11 10 attached a Im Importance lm- lm e to one of sub sub- subsequent subsequent sequent utterances that thal if 1 the soviet Itt scheme were found too loo revo revo- revolutionary revolutionary the Iho Russian would woul 1 be Le ready to participate In ire any Rny moms moie e modest plan of or disarmament when ben an thins practical was proposed |
