Unfortunately,despite all the good intentions,the story of disarmament between 1919 and the 1932 Disarmament Conference is a story of failure. Specific proposals contained too many flaws and nations took diametrically opposed positions on the entire issue.In some ways it could be argued that disarmament was and still isa logically impossible.

The first step in disarmament after the war was the treatment meted out to Germany in the Treaty of Versailles.It was hoped that this would begin a general move towards disarmament.Article 8 of the League Covenant saw disarmament as a specific goal:

*The first major effort in disarmament came with the Washington Coference

*The French viewed Germany as a potentially powerful nation of 70 million. France,a nation of 4 million,would always be at Germany`s mercy unless it could be sure of an ally,so it aimed at keeping Germany weak and could not move on disarmament until its security had been established.

*In November 1920 a Temporary Mixed Commission was established to get the disarmament process moving.

*The major divergence of opinion on the disarmament question can be summarised as follows:

-France wanted to limit only the numbers of men actually in the armed services.

-The status quo,regarding the powers` bases in the area,was to be maintained.

The Five Power Treaty between the U.S,Britain,Japan,France and Italy was aimed at disarmament.

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