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Show ARMS PARLEY ALTERS PLANS Commission Directed By Viscount Cecil Meets Attitude of U. S. Geneva. The preparatory commission commis-sion on disarmament at a private session ses-sion took steps to prevent the conference confer-ence from becoming a purely league of nations affairs. With a view to meeting the American Ameri-can attitude toward the conference Viscount Cecil, the British delegate I moved that two subcommittees of the commission be appointed, to which all states are entitled to name representatives. repre-sentatives. One of these committees will handle military, naval and air problems, and the other will handle the general economic problem 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 send rfinrpspnt;t:i-nn i The United States, however, inform-ed inform-ed the league that, when it accepted the invitation to the conference, it did not accept any plan which virtaullv , wu cl take matters out of the hands ( of the preparatory commission Tuesday's action is felt to emphasise empha-sise the soverign character of the comm.sBion, and when the commission n he T T Sin US probl- "-ill be - he hands of its own subcommittee bodies ln hand8 f the J'27 ?''iaUn f Spain has be appointed ap-pointed chairman of the military sub- committee and Senor Buero of U u- Kuay has been appointed chairman of the general economic subcommit- |