Evening star., 1932-10-09
Geneva Delegation Reported
Offering Plan for Study
of Conference.
MAXIMUM REDUCTION
ACCEPTED AS FIXED
Premier Herriot to Visit London
Wednesday to Discuss Reich
Equality Demands.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, October 8.-Dispatches from
Geneva tonight said the French delega-
ton there had formulated a plan link
ing the ideas Of universal security and
progressive disarmament over a 10-year
period
The Havas (French) Agency in a
Geneva report said Premier Edouard
Herriot of France would make a speech
in Alsace tomorrow that would contain
special mention Of the French sugges-
tion.
1t was added that the plan would be
offered to the world disarmament con-
ference at Geneva after it had been
definitely approved by the French war
council and cabinet.
The plan will suggest progressive dis
armament in two stages of five years
each and treat as universal rather than
strictly French the problem of security.
Sets Disarm:ng Limit.
The first part of the proposal, called
the maximum, sets forth the extreme
limit to which France is willing to dis
arm providing the powers submit to
severe armament control and engage
themselves to enforce sanctions.
The second part, called the minimum,
will describe the point beyond which
France feels unable to disarm provid-
ing the conditions of security are no
greater than a certain degree believed
by France to be indispensable.
These reports followed upon the
statement in lie Temps here that the
Hoover disarmament program Of gen.
eral one-third cut in arms ''offers
ground for a possible understanding
among all nations"
(As quoted in London last night.
Geneva dispatches said the new French
plan of disarmament was a combina-
tion Of President Hoovers proposal and
of the French security ideas based on
League of Nations police force)
Herriot to Visit London.
Meanwhile Premier Herriot was m-
derstood to be planning trip to Lon
don next Wednesday to confer with
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
about Germary's demand for equality
in ornaments.
The foreign office announced Thurs
day that the proposed four-power arms
meeting at London had been post
poned indefinitely, explaining that
France and England would continue
informal discussion Of the problem.
The premier's trip would be in con-
formity with this plan.
In addition to the German question.
the premier plans to continue with Mr..
Macdonald the disarmament CONVEX
sations which were begun at Geneva.
Norman H. Davis, American delegate
to the Geneva conference, already has
gone to London after having exchanged
views with M. Herriot. LIE Temps said
today that the meeting between the
American delegate and the premier
confirmed "once more the excellent
spirit of confident collaboration char
acterizing relations between Paris and
Washington"
Confers With Tyrrell.
Premier Herriot conferred with Lord
Tyrrell. the British Ambassador, at
length today. the two of them discuss
ing the German equality demands.
M. Herriot gave a resume of the
French position of acceptance of the
British. proposal for a conference, with
the conditions that the exchange of
views be held at Geneva and not limited
to the four big powers.
The premier's position was outlined
as being that the entire question of the
equality of ornaments should be treated
basically as one of security.
Later the premier talked with Arthur
Henderson, president of the Disarnia-
ment Conference, who stopped in en-
route to Geneva. They talked about the
program of coming meetings at Geneva
"in order to facilitate the continuation
Of the work undertaken