Evening star., 1932-11-14
Neutrality Ban
for Nations
Sought
STANDING ARMY
END ALSO ASKED
Aggressor May Be
Redefined by
New Pact.
BY the Associated Press.


PARIS, November 14.-The high
statesmen of France completed
the final details of a three-point
armament plan today and one OF
them pronounced the suggestion
a great hope for the World Dis
armament Conference, whose fail
ure would ultimately mean "a
race toward war"
The detailed document entitled
"a Plan for Organization OF
Peace" was ready to send to Ge-
neva for official presentation to
the disarmament conference.
1t represents the French idea
of the problem and provides for
treaties of consultation, security
and arms equality.
This plan indicates for the
first time, clearly and Loyalty be-
fore the worlo, what we are ready
to do," said Joseph Paul-Boncour,
minister of war and French dele
gate to the disarmament confer
ence.
Offers Great Hope.
"The plan brings great hope to the
disarmament conference, whose failure
would be a signal for a re-armament
race which sooner or later would be q
race toward war;" he concluded.
Premier Edouard Herriot and mem
bers of the French delegation spent mos
of last evening putting the f1na
touches on the plan.
Advance notice of the plan through
disclosures to the Radical Socialist
party congress, to the Geneva Confer
ence Committee and to the press
seemed to present the idea like this:
/. A general consultative pact In
which the nations of the world would
renounce the right of neutrality in the
event of war. This would involve the
United States as far as she has previ-
ously committed herself.
2. A general convention for the re-
duction of armaments. This probably
would stress defensive ornaments as
opposed to powerful attack weapons
Here, too, might be a new definition OF
an aggressor nation from the French
viewpoint.
May Mean Equality.
3. A regional European pact providing
for a general staff of Europe and armies
to be placed at the disposal of nation
made the victim of aggression. This
would envisage a conscript system for
European armies abohshing profes-
sioual armies, such as the German
Reichswenr. This might also give Ger
many a basis for her claim to equality
in armamentS.
Among the many suggestions made as
TO the various provisions of these three
treaties have been that nations will
renounce their rights to neutrality in
the event of war; that international
control of armies would be set up, with
rights of investigation; and that men,
bers of the League specifically agree
to fulfillment of article 16 regarding
contributions Of arms for victim OF
aggression.
1AAA OA4lCiu4 VI OAAC EAoAi
enunciates the policy of disseminating
economic and financial relations with
an aggressor nation.
Economic Weapon.
The summary, made public today,
says that based on the declarations OF
Secretary of State Stimson that armed
conflict interests all signatories to the
Briand-Kellogg pact, who could not
adopt neutrality toward an aggressor.
chapter / has for its object to have
this principle accepted by all powers.
In case of violation of the pact, the
summary continues, the powers should
discontinue their economic and flnan-
cial relations with an aggressor
Joseph Paul-Boncour recently said In
Geneva that the French plan repre-
sents amplification. perfection and or
ganization of the principle of the
Hoover suggestion for a general one
third cut in ornaments, according tc
the ideas ruling French policy.
The plan was up before the Council
Of Ministers TODAY, called together by
President Albert Lebrun. The docu-
ment will be officially transmitted tc
Geneva for presentation by a member
Of the French delegation, Rene
MassigH.
EXPECTED IN GENEVA TODAY.