Evening star., 1932-04-14


League Of Nations is supported thus
far only by Uruguay. Jugoslavia and
Denmark.
The Italian plan is similar to the
American, but goes further by including
the abolition of so-called aggressive
arms Of air and sea as well as land.
Ihe American plan which would
abolish gas, tanks and heavy mobile
artillery, therefore appears to nearly
every one as SOFT of common mini
mum program which nearly every one
accordingly is supporting, though many
OF the nations would like to 90 furthec
Z en- Spain and Poland. which were
expected to back France, lean half way
toward the United States.
Ihefe Is reason to believe. therefore
that the American plan will be adopted
IN the END, though it may be necessary
meanwhile to find some means of com
premise with France.
Inc British, Germans and Italians
are all delighted to see the Tinted
states thus take the lead, and a fur
IIler impetus to the work of the con-
le-ehce Is expected when Henry I.
oVHilSon arrives. The American Secre-
taIy OF state will find much going on
neie. Inc council meets tomorrow in
p-NaIe session probably to find itseli
tll unaDle 10 proffer any financial help for
Cite present to Hungary, Austria, Bull
garia and Greece. '
Stimson Arrives Tomorrow.
Inc Committee of Nineteen on the
80 -I E@'L connlct meets Saturday at the
ut gent request Of the Chinese II is
Iitrni,, - tilat Stlmson, while here. is
-
conflict. -1'ei0S' III thls
On Monday the disarmament dtScus-
slonS viii resume. 'A'
StlmEon arrives In Paris tor,or,,,,,
lunchlng there with Pren,isr AJs aGm
Tardieu, and is arriv,nr, i,' cu nllul
probably with Sir John simon Rriti.h,
t0relgn minister, Saturday morninn
chancellor Heinrich Bruenino is no,s
ing from Berlin at the same time Tn
9ieu G.ta ahd probably Ramsay MacDonald
bIItISn PRIME minister, are coming hacI,
next Thursday. i-i4s DICK
meanwhile the temporary excitersr,
n conference circles over the Eranon
aii-14 an lean mSunderS tanding orou,in,
out OF Ambassad dor Hugh s fsi6sn,, fi6bm,as =
iI.oauCViCn OF the surprise" America ;, -
p4dL' appears to be dying down Ar,o,.i
al cACieS are amazed at the ipono,
lance attached to the incident hy ~
FFeheh IN private Conversations o1d 'tie ~,
Lne FarB press. Some observers s,. -
pect tne french of ulterior motives @,
mus artlhcially indating a teanot f,,Ia ~
into tempest. "H0' Hzzie
NO Concerted Pact.
According to American circles ,hor.
wa "a' never any informal Franco Amer
60 SoIi ss~tGehlent ~ 10 consult together. Glib
lntlmat.nS that no American initisf 'Iso
YOU'D be taken prior to Stimson'S az
fllaI' was superseded by instruction,
rom washington late Saturday.
Inc American plan. il is a firp,a,
v d, H1t concerted with any of the other
powers Nn2tSceVe-, but wa merely hs seJ
On "hat study CT the situation revealed
W pe tns minimum comm On ground ac-
ceptabIe to nearly all the nations
Inc French never made a practice NJ
showing us, say the Americans their
plans IN advance. The French dis
armament proposals were shown IN
others, but the Americans first learned
OF them through Tardieu. it is con-
tended. Nevertheless, member of the
American delegation informed one mem
per OF the French delegation Monday
forenoon What Gibson was going to 90
ana Ia:oleu himself YVES handed a copy
of the American speech before he tooi
his Se2t at the meeting.
IN there '-curStaoce5, if the F-ench
thereafter spreared i1olased and Tar
dieu lot his temper. it is hardly the
fault OF the American delegation, It is
said
In any case, Stimson will undoubtedly
be fully informed of the incident when
he reaches Paris and he can have with
Tardieu any conversation deemed ap-
propriate in regard to II.
(Copyright, 1897