conference broke up ⇒ league officials continued to work behind scenes ⇒ with Germany and other powers
- December 1932 ⇒ Other powers agreed to decide equality for Germany
- Germany thus returned to discussions ⇒ disarmament conference reconvened.
Important changes:
- Germany ⇒ new leader ⇒ Hitler
- He attended conference + appeared genuinely interested in making progress on disarmament
- (In reality ⇒ not interested in disarmament + secretly started rearmament program in Germany)
While his military commanders ⇒ secretly making plans for rearmament ⇒ Hitler pretended to engage with other powers on issue of disarmament
- He promised to not rearm Germany ⇒ if other powers agreed to disarm within 5 years
- Was trying to put pressure on other powers (Esp. France)
Hitler ⇒ playing clever game
- calling for large scale disarmament ⇒ and he knew other powers would not agree to disarm to same level as Germany faced under TOV
- gave him justification to rearm Germany
Oct 1933 ⇒ Pulled Germany out of the disarmament conference and from LON