Evening star., 1932-07-10
RUSSIA'S DISARMAMENT
VIEWS SANS ILLUSIONS
Delegation Prepared to Stay at Geneva
and Expose Inconsistencies and
Hypocricies" of Others.

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honor their signatures, the Russians re-
tort that they and their bsd-fellows,
the Americans. certainly cannot be
expected to accept the theory of
League army orfagree TO infringements
upon their sovereignty at the hands OF
a League investigating body.
Anything we have heard continued
Iitvinoff points rather TO a retreat
still further from disarmament The
Preparatory Commission, at least, dis
cuSsed limitation ana reduction OF
armamentS. Now certain governments
announce their entire disagreement
with any reduction whatsoever unless
preliminary conditions, which will be
found totally unacceptable to the con-
ference as a whole, are fulfilled.
There are even demands for the IN
crease of armaments. rnd that by no
means from weak states with low arma-
mentS. There are any amount OF
questions involving serious principles
on which states represented in the Pre-
paratory Commission differed widely.
These differences prolonged the life OF
that commission several years; they are
no nearer solution now"
New Fears Raised.
Reduction of ornaments alone, says
M. Litvinoff. is but a weak palliative
for disarmament and IN nowise JUS
titles the present conference being held
after 13 years Of srduous preparation.
New proposals which have been
made raise the fear that the conference
is due to be side-tracked. Although we
have not diminished existing military
aggregates by single unit, We are be-
ing asked to create moral disarma-
ment.' Russia, least Of any nation, OPP
poses moral disarmament, the abolition
OF jingoism and ChauviniSm of the
press. in literature, the cinema. school
books, toys and the like. We have
suffered more than any country from
forged documents and poisoning of the
press. Americans can bear testimony
to that. No nation knows better the
attempts continually being made to
poison the relations between Russia
and the United States by systematic
organized campaigns OF SANDER, libel,
forged documents - campaigns insti-
gated by certain commercial and
banking circles with interests of their
own to serve, by political adventures.
counter-revolutionarie emigres ready
to sell themselves today 10 Japan, to-
morrow to China, the next day to any
old country
Campaigns Of chauvinism and ma
tional hatred have never yet come from
the heart of the peoples They are al
ways organized by small groups inter
ested in warlike preparations, manu-
facture Of munitions. the war indus
tries and potential profiteers. They
often succeed in poisoning the minds
OF the masses Deprive these groups
OF their base, remove them from war
industries, destroy their hopes OF war
and profits to be made from war and
they will die out Of themselves. Then
you will have no need of moral dis
The problems Of unjust frontiers will
not be solved by disarmament nor will
the status QUO be generally accepted
either in Europe or the Orient ac-
cording to M. Litvinoff.
Profound Differences Exist.
Nobody will deny" he added, that
profound ferences-economic, politi-
cal and territorial-exist between states
Some consider that neighboring states
are wrongly and Illegally occupying
land which belongs to themselves, hence
the agitation for restoration Of infringed
rights. for the revision of frontiers and
the like.
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these grievances, these dissatisfactions.
shall not lead to attempts to alter the
situations by force
Under the political and economic
conditions prevailing in most countries,
nations and states will only have Sc
curity when no one can attack them,
when there are no arms with which to
attack. with which TO occupy foreign
territory or with which to subjugate
other nations"
Armaments, however are not the only
factors creating IAN alarming political
atmosphere. mistrust and instability"
concluded M. Litvinoff. They are to
be found in the political and economic
estrangement of several states on one
hand and the Soviet Union, with its
100 900, 600 Inhabitants, on the other, he
believes.
I'm this respect we have only to
glance at events now going on, on the
shores OF the Pacific" said Litvinoff.