§ Mr. COCKSasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any of 2314W the Governments represented at Geneva have stated that they will not agree to the international supervision of armaments or to the guarantees for the execution of a Disarmament Convention; and, if so, will he give particulars and the dates on which such declarations were made?
§ Sir J. SIMON; Proposals for various forms of international supervision have from time to time been submitted by different Governments, who have accompanied them with reserves or with parallel proposals on other subjects, but while there has been no general agreement on any form of supervision, no Government has explicitly rejected the principle. The question of guarantees for the execution of a Disarmament Convention has only recently come before the Conference as a specific issue. It has been studied by a small committee at Geneva, the chairman of which has submitted on his own responsibility a tentative note on the subject for the consideration of Governments, who have as yet had no public opportunity of expressing their views.