Evening star., 1926-12-12
HOPE Of SETTLING
ISSUE Of GERMAN
ARMAMENTS RISES
League Council kd1ourns, But
Ministers Stay on Today
to Seek Agreement.
STRESEMANN GIVES NEW
ASSURANCES TO ALLIES
Brands Position Uncertain, While
Cabinet in Paris Debates Mill
tary Control Plan.
By the Associated Press.

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GENEVA, Switzerland, December II
Though the Council of the League
OF Nations stood adjourned tonight
without having reached an agreement
on interallied control over Germany S
aymaments, the foreign ministers will
reassemble tomorrow morning. The
action Of the French cabinet with
respect to M. Brands plan for the
Withdrawal of the military commission
has: not been made known.
Gustav Stresemann, the German
foreign secretary, emerged from the
council smiling, and said: I'VE will
stick to Geneva until we settle every
thing, even IL we have to stay until
Christmas"
He hoped that the new German as
surances concerning fortresses and the
expectation of armaments would sat
isfy the ambassadors council, but If
they did not, he proposed arbitration
of the question.
The foreign ministers, including NJ.
BRAND, approved this plan, which will
be submitted to Paris.
February Date Favored.
1t was confidently hoped that prom
tses on the armament problem by
Germany would convince the council
of ambassadors at Paris and the al
lied military experts and that the for
eign ministers could reach an accord
to end the interallied control about
February /. The unsettled problems,
such as the dismantling of fortifica-
tions and the exploration of arms,
would be left for settlement by spe-
Cfal tribunal Of arhitrat tion.
A modified plan of league investiga
tion into German armaments was
adopted by the council before its adj
Journment. This plan authorizes the
council to decide by a majority vote
whether an investigation is necessary.
Germany won what is regarded as an
important point by a provision that
no special control shall be. exercised
in the demilitarized Rhine zone unless
this is later agreed upon by France
and Germany.
German General Criticized.
In connection with the new. assur-.
ances which Germany is expected to
give in order to justify. the turning
over of supervision of Germany's
ornaments to the league. Foreign
Minister Stresenann disavowed ex-
plantations given at yesterdays ses-
sion of the council of ambassadors by
Gen. Won Pauwels and said that the
German cabinet had Instructed the
generaIto make a fresh statement to
the ambassadors tonight. He charac-
terized the generals statement of yes
terday as clumsy and unclear.
While reports were circulated to-
night that Premier Poincare had re-
pudiated concessions made by Foreign
Minister BRAND, and that M. BRAND
would resign IL he were not supported
by the Poincare cabinet, another re-
port was that NJ. BRAND and Foreign
Secretary Chamberlain of Great
Britain. stirred by their receipt of the
Noble peace prize, were felt to have
exceeded the limits of discretion in
favoring the cessation of interallied
control
Nobel Prizes Appreciated.
DIR. Stresemann, NJ. BRAND and Sir
Austen addressed the council in ap-
probation of their receipt of the Nobel
prizes. Sir Austen especially referred
to the contribution of Charles G.
Dawes, Vice President of the United
States, his co-winner of the 1925 prize,
in the reconstruction of Europe. He
declared that Locarno had led Europe
out of darkness into light, that the
path was still long and beset by diff.
fculties, but that he was convinced
that with courage and perseverance
the goal of permanent peace could be
reached.
DR.. Stresemann painted a new Ger
many dedicated to cooperation for
peace, and expressed the belief that
Germany thereby would attain her
fullest and honorable development.