Evening star., 1934-05-29
Envoy Calls for Pact to Curb
Free Traffic in Munitions,
While Litvinoff Decries
"Armed Peace"
HOPE NAZIS WILL JOIN
WORLD MOVE EXPRESSED
Geneva Farley Should Be Perma-
nent, Soviet Foreign Commissar
Says - Decrease in Attack
Forces Way to Promote Secur-
ity, Roosevelt Spokesman Says.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
GENEVA, May 29-The United
States offered the world assistance in
the reduction and control of arma-
ments today and Soviet Russia advo-
Gated the complete abolition of arma-
ments in proposals made before the
international Disarmament Confer
ence.
The American suggestions were made
by Norman H. Davis, United States
Ambassador at Large. The Russian
proposal was made by Maxim Litvinoff,
'oreigr commiSsar for the Soviet Union.
Litvinof proposed that the confer
ence be made a permanent body to
safeguard the security of all nations
and safeguard peace
Continue or Collapse"
He said the conference now faced
the problem of whether it would con-
tinue or collapse He said he be-
1ieved the present non-reconciliation
OF divergent opinion made it impos-
s1ble to find solution of the problem
OF disarmament and declared:
Armed peace is only an armistice
1t is negation of the basic princi-
pie Of the Kellogg anti-war pact"
Then he suggested complete renun-
citation of armaments.
The Soviet official painted the world
as seeking goals of national policies
and as sometimes undertaking hos
tilities within the borders of neigh
boring states.
War Dangers Seen.
In suggesting that the conference
be made permanent conference of
peace" he warned the world that this
machinery is necessary because there
are dangers Of bloody war "or rath-
er series of wars which include all
continents and all humanity"
He suggested:
This transformed organ should
have as its goal the prevention of war
and consolidation of security. It
should reply Immediately within the
measures of its forces to SOS calls
from menaced states, which should be
helped materially, economically f1nan-
cially, or otherwise
Proposes Universal Accord.
Litvinoff also proposed a universal
or European pact of security supple
mented by regional agreements of mu-
tual assistance.
The commissar asked whether It
would not be honest and courageous
to realize that political events in GER
tain countries during recent years do
not permit the conference to conclude
q treaty.
He said, however, that Russia be-
Ieves the conference should concen-
trate on the establishment of addi-
tlonal guarantees of peace or on in
creased measures of security for ma.
tions without nourishing aggressive
designs.
Would Control Sales.
Ambassador Davis told the confer
ence that the United States is willing
to join them ''in a substantial and
proportionate reduction of naval ton
mage" and is likewise willing to join
sales OF war materials.
His declarations were heard by rep
resentatives of the leading powers.
The statement regarding naval re-
ductions were anticipatary of the
great naval conference of 1885, which
will seek to supplement the present
naval agreement by which Great
Britain, the United States, and Japan
are armed at sea on a 5-5-3 ratio
To Join Arms Pact.
Ambassador Davis announced that
the United States is willing to work
out by an international agreement an
effective system for the regulation of
the manufacture and sales of arms
and ammunition.
After quoting from President Roose-
velts message to Congress concerning
the traffic in arms, Davis declared:
THE people of the United States
are aroused at the evils which are
being revealed in the production OF
and traffic in the munitions of war.
THE American Government is
ready to join any measure for sup
pressing this evil and is prepared to
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