Armament > Draft proposals by the United Kingdom delegation

II.
“ A. Security.
“ The Political Commission should be instructed at once to study the methods of giving
effect to point (i) above.
“ A Committee of the Continental European States should be immediately constituted to
examine point (2) above.
“ B. Disarmament.
“ (a) Effectives. ■■— The Bureau shall at once undertake the following work:
“ (i) In accordance with the plan for the calculation of land forces contained in the
proposals of President Hoover, compute the totals of personnel of the ‘ police component ’
(the irreducible component) of the existing land forces of each country, both metropolitan
and overseas. For this purpose it shall instruct the Effectives Committee to make to it
within . . . days recommendations concerning the ratios to be employed in this
calculation. If within that time the Effectives Committee has been unable to reach a unanimous
recommendation, it must report fully to the Bureau the state of its discussions, and it will be
for the Bureau to take a definite decision.
“ (ii) Agree upon the percentage by which the ‘ defence component ’ (the excess over
the ‘ police component ’) of each State shall be reduced, such reduction to be effected by a
certain date or dates to be specified.
“ (hi) Determine the stages and methods by which Continental European armies may
be brought into harmony with the general type of organisation adopted (see I (5)). For the
discussion of this point, the Bureau may require the Effectives Committee to submit
recommendations.
" (b) Land War Material. — The Bureau shall:
(i) Fix the maximum tonnage of tanks;
“ (ii) Fix for the future the maximum calibre of mobile land guns;
“ (iii) Decide whether there should be a limitation of the number of tanks of allowed
tonnage and of mobile land guns of allowed calibre;
“ (iv) If a limitation of the number of tanks is accepted, decide as to the disposal of
tanks exceeding that limit.
“ (c) Air. — The Bureau shall at once constitute a committee of representatives of the
principal air Powers to examine the possibility of the entire abolition of military and naval machines
and of bombing from the air, combined with an effective international control of civil aviation.
As a preliminary to the decision to be taken by the Committee of Air Powers, the Bureau shall
at once:
“ (i) Fix the maximum unladen weight of military and naval aircraft;
“ (ii) Decide as to the disposal of machines exceeding that limit—whether they shall
be scrapped, and, if so, the dates by which scrapping must have been effected;
“ (iii) Fix the numbers of machines not exceeding the unladen weight limit which may
be allowed to each State.
“ (d) Naval Forces. — The Bureau shall fix the maximum tonnage and maximum calibre
of gun for:
“ (i) Capital ships;
“ (ii) Aircraft-carriers (if these are allowed to be retained of replaced) ;
“ (iii) Cruisers;
“ (iv) Destroyers;
" (v) Submarines (if these are allowed to be retained or replaced).”