An item dated Geneva, Switzerland 23rd reported that the Russian delegation proposed that total disarmament was to be the starting-point for the further discussions on the conference. If this proposal was not accepted, was her next proposal that navies beneath the total tonnage of 100.000 tons needed to be decreased and navies with a tonnage of 500.000 tons of more were to be decreased with 50%.(1)
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1. The must be the World Disarmament Conference also called Geneva Disarmament Conference or the Conference for the Reduction and Limitations of Armaments 1932-1934 as a effort of the League of Nations to prevent a arms race and even an increase of the armed forces. The withdrawal of Germany from the Conference in October 1933 in fact ended of the effort.
