NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AT the Spa Conference the Allies, when we go to press on Thursday, are on the brink of a decision which will have a very important bearing on our future relations with Germany. There is no doubt that both the British Government and the British people have reached the point of admitting the necessity of helping Germany to stabilize herself. A stable Germany is necessary to the whole world ; but, unfortunately, it is not only a question of helping Germany, but a. question of whether Germany is going to make it possible for us to help her. There is evidently a good deal of the old Adam in Germany. There is a tendency, we fear, to temporize in the hope that it may be possible to trip up the Allies here and there, whereas the only right and the only paying policy for Germany is unfailing frankness and promptitude.
