Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-11
Complete Report Of Work to
Be Made at PIenary
Session Monday.
MORROW IS U. S. MEMBER
OF DRAFT COMMITTEE
ee-Power Treaty to Have Sup
Elementary Agreement, Including
Italy and France.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 1.-THE big five"
delegates to the naval conference today
! decided to hold a plenary session on
Monday for the purpose of receiving the
completed work of the conference.
Another plenary session will be held
Thursday for signing, if it is possible to
prepare the prospective treaty by that
time. Should 1t be impossible to get
the treaty ready by Thursday, the sign
ing probably will be deferred until after
Easter. In any event, it is hoped that
the heads of all the delegations will be
in London for the signing whenever it
occurs.
The treaty will take the form of a
three-part flve-power agreement, in
which the backbone will be complete
agreement between the United States,
Great Britain and Japan on the limita-
ton and reduction of all categories of
sea ornaments and supplementary
agreement, including France and Italy,
concerning matters upon which all the
powers are in accord.
Macdonald Well Satisfied.
1--WE are very well satisfied with the
treaty which is in prospect from our
laborS," said Prime Minister Ramsay
Macdonald, after a meeting of the heads
of the delegations at st. James Palace
this morning. 1.-The treaty is a SUBJ
stantial step in the direction toward
which we have been striving in the face
of difficulties which at times appeared
to be almost insurmountable."
The drafting of the treaty and get
ting it in shape for signing by next
Thursday is tremendous job, and some
of the experts were doubtful II it could
be achieved Most of the delegations
today were hard at work preparing
treaty draft, and virtually the whole
American delegation was busy getting
its treaty ideas on paper.
All this rough material will have to
be pulled into shape by the conference
drafting committee, which was provided
for today. Dwight w. Morrow was Sc
lected as American member OF this
body. Comdr. Harold G. Train and j.
Theodore Mariner are the American
members of a parallel experts commit
tee, to which drafting problems will be
submitted These committees will work
almost increasingly through the week
end.
The scene at st. James Palace this
morning was one of extraordinary &C
tivity. The large, handsome suite Of
rooms which has been assigned the
conference hardly sufdced to accommo-
date the various committees partlci-
pating in preparation OF the treaty.
When a press conference was held the
newspaper men found themselves
C. DIVIDED out of their usual quarters.
London papers hailed the agreement
as a real step in the direction OF dis
armament,
Commons Told of Agreement.
In the House of Commons Prime
Minister Macdonald interrupted debate
on the Scottish housing bill to make a
naval announcement" in which he in
formed the Commons of complete agree
ment covering all categories Of ships by
America, Great Britain and Japan.
1.-THE differences in the naval require
ments of France and Italy have proved
intricate and have not SO far been re-
solved" he said.
Mr.. Macdonald said a white paper
would be published covering the work
accomplished, and he concluded: "At
meeting this evening between the
French, Italians and United Kingdom
delegations it was decided that as such
substantial agreement had been reached
it was unnecessary and undesirable to
keep the full body of delegates sitting
at London pending settlement of diff
culties which primarily concern these
three delegations only.
$50 we shall propose, at a plenary
session early next week, that the agree
ment now reached shall be signed and
the conference adjourned, on the I'M
Outstanding that France. Italy and our
selves shall continue efforts to come to
an agreement in unison with that
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