The next day was disappointing. Germany, considering herself disarmed and
defenceless, has not unnaturally taken the line of supporting the fantastic proposals of Moscow, and Count Bernstorff found great fault with the Commission for rejecting them and yet not making greater speed with their own schemes. Last Saturday he proposed, in order to hasten matters, that the Council should be asked to fix the date for the meeting of the Disarmament Conference, but the debate was interrupted by M. Lit- vinoff producing a new and elaborate (not necessarily the worse for that) scheme of universal gradual disarmament. The Committee ended its session by resolving to 'ask the Governments to take note of the Soviet proposals and of Germany's earlier motion, which we recorded last week, for obtaining more details of each country's armament.
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