The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-12
LityinOff Proposes
Total Disarmament
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| tHdL the SOVlCJ uc1SKatlOu 0eDleS
the Importance and the efficacy of
other ways of consolidating peace
short of total disarmament. We
have by no means come here mere
ly TO put before you again the pro-
pOSal Of total disarmament or to
declare that we are determined to
have all or nothing. We have no
illusions whatsoever as OF the fate
in store for our propositions. Our
delegation is ready to discuss any
proposal tending TO reduce arma-
ments, and the further such reduc-
tions go the more readily will the
Soviets take part in the work Of
the conference"
Litvinoff forcefully reminded the
conference that the Soviet Union was
the first to propose the second draft
of the convention before the Pre-
paratory Disarmament Commission,
the complete destruction of the most
aggressive types of ornaments, in
Guiding tanks, super-heavy artillery,
ships over 10000 tons, naval artillery
over twelve inches, aircraft carriers,
military dirigibles, bombing planes
and chemical and meteorological
warfare.
'"The Soviets," he said, will
warmly support any proposals ap-
preaching or outstripping our own
and will support equal rights for all
countries In this conference and
equal security for all states"
Scores Economic Blockade.
Litvinoff then exposed the politi-
cal and economic boycott of the i'm
perialist nations against the U. S. S.
r., of which America is leader, and
the slanderous campaign Of lies that
is being spread in the capitalist press
"The country i represent Is in a
less favorable position regarding Sc
curity than other countries. Only
fourteen years ago 1t was the OBJ
ject of an armed attack, a blockade
and a political and economic boy
colt. Since then it has been the
object of indescribable SANDER and
hostile campaign"
OF all the delegates who spoke at
the conference, the Soviet delegate
was the only one to speak Of the war
that is now going on in the Far East
"The present events In the Far
East cannot but cause special
anxiety to the Soviets IN view of
the nearness of the theater of
events, where huge army is oper-
ing"
eve have had to begin our work
to the accompaniment of the dis
tant rumbling of cannon and the
explosion Of bombs from the air.
Two states, mutually bound by the
League of Nations Covenant and
the Paris Treaty of 1928, have been
in a state of war de facto If not
de lure for five months. No war Is
yet registered with a notary public,
but vast territories In one of these
countries have been occupied by
armed forces of the other nation
and battle is being waged IN which
thousands are being killed and
wounded"
Attacks Tardieu's Police Force.
Exposing M. Tardieus call for al
international inperialist police forct
as a call to arms against the Sove'
Union and the colonial nations, Lit
vinoff asked:
"What guarantees are there that
such an international army would
be put into operation, and that in
good time before the weaker party
to the conflict was crushed? What
guarantees would there be that the
aggreSsor viii really be found and
that when found II will really be
he? Suppose an armed conflict Is
going on somewhere, whether it
has the official stamp Of war or
not. First of all, IL must be estab-
lished who is the aggressor and who
is the victim and whether there has
been infringement of International
treaties and undertakings. In most
cases this Is no complicated matter
and the unsophisticated man in the
street would have little difficulty
in finding the answer and no doubt
the answer would be the right one.
But International organizations and
governments are not always ready
with the answer mad are reduced to
issuing appeals, exhortations and
threats simultaneously to both
sides"
How would an international arm.
deal with the situation" asked Com
rade Litvinoff, "and might it not b
undesirable to establish which is tn,
guilty side?
after all, such an army could
hardly lombard both sides stimuli
taneousIy so as to make sure Of
hitting the aggressor.
ut is proposed TO create new
army to join forces with those Of a
state that Is recognized to have
been the victim of an attack" he
said. "Thus the state which In
tends to attack another will have
to reckon In advance not only on
the forces of its immediate enemy
but on those armies, so to speak,
allied to It's enemy. Thus an ag-
gressor would take into considera-
ton the forces of the international