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REDUCTION AND LIMITA---- TION OF

ARMAMENTS.

(Previous

Reference: Cabinet 36 (28), Con- clusion 2.)

19. The Lord Privy Seal reminded the

Cabinet that before they separated it would be

necessary to approve instructions for the Chanalor

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of the Duchy of Lancaster, who in August would be attending further meetings of the Preparatory Commission prior to meetings of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva. At a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial

Defence on the previous day he had learned the tenor of the French reply to the request that the

French Government should confirm certain proposals

made on his own responsibility by the French Naval

representative on the Preparatory Commission.

At first sight the reply appeared promising.

Lord Salisbury added that, after a further meeting

of the Committee of Imperial Defence Sub-Committee,

he proposed to hold a meeting of the Cabinet

Committee on Disarmament Policy on the following

Monday,

and he would like to know whether the

Cabinet would like the Committee to take the

responsibility for dealing with these questions

or whether they would like to reserve the final

-decision to themselves.

The-Cabinet asked that the Cabinet Committee on Policy might report to them at their next regular weekly Meeting.

2. Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1,

July 18, 1928.

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