20 OCTOBER 1928, Page 2

On Monday, in the Reichstag, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald opened the

series of addresses arranged by the new German Committee for International Discussion. The German Chancellor and several Ministers and diplomats were present. Mr. MacDonald's remarks have annoyed some of the French newspapers, but they seem to us to have been very helpful when they were not quite harmless. Mr. MacDonald is generally discreet in everything he says about foreign policy ; he values the continuity of British policy in foreign affairs. This fact cuts both ways. If he wants to follow Unionist policy so far as he can it is plainly desirable for Unionists to make it easy for him to follow.