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TUESDAY SEPTEMBER
mission, that majority including siderations did not however, pre the representatives of those vent those yery Powers from sign- Powers which are the original ing the Parla Pact, whose text is algnatories of the Pact signed in silent as to the inviolability of such Paris.
obligations, FULL TEXT OF WORDY NOTE The project was declined not- withstanding the fact that its TO FRANCE.
acceptance and realisation would have meant a real guarantee of peace.
WORLD PEACE DESIRE.
Their Second Scheme.
Moscow, Aug. 31,- "Not wishing to neglect any
"These facts are irrefutable. proof that the idea of the ronunciation of war and armed conflict as an instrument of national policy is the basis and loading idea of Soviet foreign polley.
"Nevertheless, the initiators of In a detailed Noto to M. Her-opportunity of contributing to the the Paris Pact did not deem it bette (the French Ambassador) įroduction of the burden of arma-necessary to invite the Soviet In reply to the US. Invitationments, borne by the masses of the Government to take part in the transmitted through the French people, the Soviet Government, negotiations lending up to the Fact Government to the Soviets to after the rejection of its propost or in the drafting of the text." adhere to the Paris Pact, Mr. for completa disarmament not "Furthermore, the invitation for Litvinov gives notification of the only did not decline to discuss the adherence to the Faris Pact trans Soviet Government's willingness question of a partial decrease of mitted through the French Govern. to adhere to the Pact,
armaments, but through its delega- ment does not mention any condl... tion on the Preparatory Commis-tions which would permit the The Note says:
sion itself came forward with a Sovite Government to secure any scheme of patrial but effective modifications fa the text. disarmament, also worked out in detail...
"I have now the honour to ask you kindly to transmit to your Government and ask the latter to convey to the Government of the United States of America the following:
"The Soviet Government must regretfully state that this scheme also failed to meet with sympathy cn the Preparatory Commission, whose action demonstrated once afresh the weakness of the League of Nations in the cause of dis-
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"The Soviet Government postu- lates as an axiom that under no conditions can it consent to bo Ing deprived of that right which the other signatory Governments
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"Having takon, from the very beginning of its existence, as the basis of its foreign polley the preservation and security of world peace, the Soviet Government al- ways and everywhere neted as a
"First of all the Soviet Govern. "Besides its systematic defence constant adherent to peace and went halfway to meet avery, step of the cause of disarmament long ment cannot refrain from express- In the direction of peace.
before the iden of the newly-sign- ing its deopent regret at the "At the same time, the Soviet ed Paris Pact was conceived, the absence in the Parts Pact of any Government considered, and still Soviet Government addressed to obligations, whatever as regards considers, that the carrying out the other Powers a proposal for disarmament of a plan of universal and com- the renunciation of war through pleto disarmamont is the only the conclusion of bilateral packs. practical means of preventing "That proposal almed not only armed conflicts, because in an at the kind of warfare stigmalised statmosphere of general feverish by the Paris Pact, but also at any armament, ali competition amongst attack by one State on another, and the Powers inevitably leads to indeed at any armed conflict what- war, which in the more destructive soever.
ments.
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