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REDUCTION AND LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS.
Naval Disarm- ament.
(Previous
Reference: Cabinet 32 (28). Con-
clusion 2.)
4. The Cabinet had before them the following
documents in connection with Reduction and
Limitation of Armaments, and more particularly
Naval disarmament:-
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A Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Paper 0.P.-183 (28)) resulting from a conversation with Herr von Schubert, of the German Foreign Office, pointing out that unless some progress is made on the question of Disarmament we should be faced by Germany's repudiation of the Disarmament Provisions of the Treaty of Versailles:
A Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Paper C.P.-184 (28)), prepared as the result of a conversation with M. Paul Boncour, emphasizing that agreement between Great Britain and France was essential to the further work of the Preparatory Commission and giving the present position of the conversations between them on the subject of Disarmament:
A Memorandum by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Paper C.P.- 189 (28)) setting forth how the present position had been reached and the extent of the difference that now divides us from the Governments of France and the United States respectively:
emphasizing the point made in the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs' Memorandum as to the repercussion on Germany of a failure of the Preparatory Com- rission of the League of Nations at Geneva, as well as the unfortunate effect of such an event on a con- siderable volume of opinion in this country on the eve of a General Election:
A Memorandur by the First Lord of the Admiralty (Paper C.F.-190 (28)) suggesting that for the tire being the attempt to draw up careful and detailed formulae which have hitherto proved impossible to reconcile with the varying needs of the different nations, should be abandoned, and that Mr Kellogg's invitation to make a Multilateral Treaty right afford an opportunity for this:
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