The New York herald., 1922-02-24
RUSSIA WOULD BAR
DISARMAMENT PLAN
League of Nations Commission
Decides to Await Genoa
Conference.
TO GATHER DATA FIRST
Experts at Parley Will Ask
Moscow to Reduce Army
to 100000.
TO GATHER DATA FIRST
BY LAURENCE HILLS.

Special Gable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1929. by THE NEw YoHK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Feb. z3.
Unless Russia agrees at the Genoa
conference to get rid Of her army OF
100000. the League of Nations Dis
armament Commission realizes that
it's efforts toward the reduction of
armaments will result only in high
sounding resolutions. The commits
sion, headed by former Premier Rene
Viviani. decided to-day to await the
outcome Of the Genoa conference, as
well as detailed information regard
ing the results of the Washington
conference, before attempting TO form
a definite program, and has fixed July
Is tentatively as the date Of the COM
missions next meeting.
In the meantime the delegates will
seek experts in ali countries to COM
pile data, send out a QUESTIONABLE
and, especially, study the means of
turning the Washington anti-poison
gas action to the leagues account by
including it in eventual league pro-
posals for writing such accords into
the international legal codes.
But everything hinges upon the atti-
tude to be taken at Genoa in respec,
to Russia's enormous army. With the
French insisting that the League OF Ma
tions be asked to collaborate at Genoa
the leagues disarmament experts in
tend to ask for definite agreement by
Moscow that the army be reduced to
10000 other nations pleading that as
long as this potential disturber of Euro
pean peace confronts them there is no
possibility of decreasing their own mil
itary burdens. A member of the COM
mission said to the correspondent for
The NEW YORK HERALD this morning:
I'VE cannot see how Russia can re-
fuse such a proposal, as the Cannes
stipulations virtually remove the neces-
sity fer anything more than a nominal
frontier guard and as all nations attend
ing the Genoa conference will subscribe
to pledge of no further aggression
against their neighboring States. II has
been the absence of an agreement of
this kind which held up the leagues
investigations and which will continue
to hinder peace efforts until the menace
of million rifles Is removed and con-
fidence restored.
I'VE are hoping that Genoa will pro-
duce something valuable In this direc-
tion. so that We can present at the next
league assembly i'm September a clear
o.. cd Nxy
accurate information as to how 1t will
affect each nation"
Up to the present the several nations
have shown hesitancy in revealing de-
tells as TO the manufacture of war ma
terials especially the nature of their
plans of preparedness. not desiring that
such vital information should reach
other member States until greater as
suranceG of an era of peace Is to COM
mence than thus far have been OBJ
tained.
Moscow. Feb. 90 (Associated press) -
Foreign Minister Tchitcherin has asked
italy whether the Russian delegation to
the Genoa Economic Conference should
arrive Mt Genoa before March (the
date originally set for the beginning of
the conference), adding that II the reply
should be in the affirmative the delega-
tion planned to leave Moscow Febru-
arv 25.
Tchitcherin also submitted demands
for absolute guarantees Of the safety OF
the Russian personnel and Its freedom
of communication. In view Of the recent
demonstrations against M. Vorovsky.
Soviet representative in Rome. and sim
liar incidents, adds the Foreign Minister.
II would be impossible otherwise to make
the trim TO Italy.