The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-05-12
Nightmare or Fear
 Has Struck Europe
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ish airplane companies were sup
 plying airplane engines, and plan.
 hing to supply complete airplanes of bombing size, to Germany. 4 protest to the British govern mont brought curt refusal to end the traffic, on tho ground that the airplanes and engines were for civil use.
 The reply ended the hope of a presnt general disarmament aSree- ment.
 Military experts disclosed that Germany could achieve parity in aerial armaments not only with Great Britain. but with France
 within two years at the present rate and within one year in an emergency. It was disclosed that
 United States manufacturers also
 were supplying planes to the Nas' government.
 British Also Worried Though Britain refused to halt
 the flow of airplanes to Germany, the British governments worry over German aerial armamefts be- came acute. Britain, despairing of an arms agreement, proposed inc formally to France, through Ar- thug Henderson, president of the disarmament conference, an agree
 ment on aerial armaments alone. Tn view of the arms situation generally, Louis Barthou, French
 foreign minister. received 1t cold ly.
 Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Ger many's new disarmament delegate. now in London, proposed to Sir John simon, British foreign minis ter, S three nation aerial limitation treaty - Germany, Britain and France.
 But by arrangement Barthou's reaction to the British proposal had been repos ted to the British embassy at Paris and telephoned to simon, and 1t was announced that Britain thought the German proposal impracticable. The impasse to-dhy means new German defiance to France and q
 spurt in British aerial armament. France, deciding that q bomb
 could be dropped from q civil air- plane as easily as from a military one, has halted direct negotiations with Germany to bre8k the general disarmament deadlock, and forced return of all negotiations to the | jurIsdiction of the League of Ma. tions, sponsor Tor the general dis.
 armament conference. The conference will meet al
 Geneva, May 29th, probably to be adjourned sine die. ft was expected that Great Britain would build up It's air fleet to keep ahead of Ger
 many's. at the same time selling
 alrplane equipment to Germany. Answer of France Paris, May 1.-UP.) - France rave its answer to disarmament
 failure to-day with announcement | of a naval and seaplane building program and the masslng of a fleet off it's coast for manoeuvers Of un- precedented proportions and char | acter.
 The building program was an. pounced by Francois Pietri, minis. tor of marine, who hastened back from Corsica because of the seriouf disarmament situation. He said France must build q
 strong fleet of seapianes as "indis. penusabie'' to fleet operations and
 that the government would ask
 emergency handling or naval build ing credits when parliament re-
 assemblies Tuesday.
 He disclosed that all government
 shipyafds are filled Co capacity and
 that the new cruisef-haftieship ol the Dunquerdue type, h super hhiI
 unmatched sn It's class in any othei
 navy, must he built at private
 shipyard.
 As pietrI made his announce ment, Ffance's fast fighting flee massed olf BreHt and Cherb0uFf
 for a theoretical war. 4 featur' will be the cooperative use o aeapianea and submarines.