30 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 6

Herr Ribbentrop, Herr Hitler's semi-official Dis- armament Commissioner, who has

just left London, may not have conducted any very formal conversations while he was here. But he did, I understand, make it quite plain that Germany was still ready to stand by her disarmament proposals of last April, which in most people's opinion constituted a perfectly acceptable basis for discussion, and with very little modification a firm basis for actual agreement. In view of the pace at which German rearmament is believed to be pro- gressing it would seem very obvious wisdom for Britain and France to get back to a formula which, if it were adopted—and observed—would bring that process to an end.