Evening star., 1933-02-03
OPPOSES
PARIS ARMS PLAN
London Unwilling to Make
New Commitments Involving
Continental Europe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, Switzerland, February s.
The British government is not disposed
to undertake any new engagements to
buttress security on the continent,
Capt. Anthony Eden, British under
secretary of state, declared today at a
meeting Of the world disarmament con-
ference, thus disclosing the existence
of another obstacle to realization Of
the French disarmament plan.
This British declaration followed
pronouncements yesterday by the Ger
man and Italian representatives reject
ing or fundamentally criticizing the
French thesis that arms reduction must
wait upon the conclusion Of additional
pacts guaranteeing security.
In the search for new safeguards
for peace" said Capt. Eden, I'VE must
not overlook those which already exist.
Cites Present Treaties.
There is first for those Of us who
are members of the League Of Nations,
its covenant which is expressly binding
upon us all. There is next the pact
OF Paris to which almost every gov
ernment in the world has subscribed.
There is finally for certain countries
of Western Europe the Treaty Of
Locarno
The importance Of the guarantees
given by that treaty may seem by COM
parison slight in some countries. They
do not seem so in mine. 1t would be
a mistake to underrate the significance
of the Locarno treaty"
Nevertheless, he expressed approval
of the idea Of the formation Of other
regional security agreements, but added,
MY government conceives that in its
membership in the League and its sig
nature to the Locarno treaty it has
gone as far as it could and should in
assuming definite commitments in
Europe.
II can give no hint Of encourage
ment, therefore. that 1t will be possible
for us to modify this attitude or to
undertake new obligations and new
commitments to which the public opin-
ion of my country is unalterably op-
posed"
He argued that European disarma-
ment would be an effective guarantee
for European peace.
Time for Real Action.
'InlS, ne SAID, is an experiment
which I believe world opinion would
wish us to make, and which economic
forces soon will compel us to undertake.
The time has now come to quit talking
disarmament and to begin acting dis
armament"
The French pan was stoutly defended
by Edouard Benes. representing Czecho-
slovakia. VINO asserted it offers a COM
plete system of security through the
extension and organization Of inter-
national peace, at the same time pro-
viding a degree of real disarmament in
proportion to the extent to which
security is realized.
Taking up the French plan yester.
day the delegates heard Count Rudolf
Nadolny, spokesman for the German
chancellor, Adolf Hitler. fatty reject q
fundamental principle of this scheme,
namely, that disarmament must go arm
in arm with the establishment of sd-
ditional guarantees for international
security.
After asserting that the League of
| Nations covenant had pledged the ma
tions to progressive disarmament as
the best way of maintaining peace and
guaranteeing security of all states,
Count Nadolny expressed regret that
the French plan did not contain con-
crete proposals for genuine qualitative
nor quantitative disarmament and that
it provided no means for limitation
Of war material.