Pueblo Chieftain

U. S. IS BUSY
GATHERING DATA
FOR PEACE MEET

Army and Navy Take Big Part
In Preparations for
Gathering

Washington, D. C., Aug. 22.-(By The Associated Press)-While diplomatic formalities of the disarmament conference move forward with deliberation, the American government is at work defining principles and collecting information which will guide its representatives at the council table.

Considerable progress is understood to have been made both toward preparation of plans and data for the American commissioners and toward a canvass of the diplomatic field to determine what international problems are to be considered within the scope of the conference.

Both the army and the navy have taken an extensive part in the government's preparations.

Meantime, although the conference has become an assured fact thru the informal acquiescence of all invited powers, the perfunctory story of formal diplomatic exchanges continues to hold the center of the stage so far as surface developments are concerned and to be the theme of all available official comment.

The formal acceptance of Great Britain reached the state department today. Formal acceptances from Japan, Italy and France are yet to come.

It has not been revealed what steps may be taken diplomatically to secure agreement as to the scope of the conference. But the nature of the formal replies are taken generally as to indicate that negotiations are entirely separate from the semi-public formal exchanges over the actual assembling of the delegates. It is understood that the tendency has been to hold discussions of scope in an informal status in order to facilitate a free exchange of views.