25 DECEMBER 1926, Page 2

* * * We have written elsewhere of the fall

of the Marx Government in Germany. Here we may express the hope that whatever form the new Government may take Hen. Stresemann will still be Minister of Foreign Affairs, or if that should not be possible that at least his policy shall be integrally maintained. Germany is exposed to a great danger in the bid of the militarists for a dominating influence in politics, but at Hamburg on Monday Herr Stresemann spoke with confidence about foreign affairs. He said that the recent foreign policy of Germany was supported by the overwhelming majority of the German nation and that therefore it was bound to continue. He declared his conviction that the Locarno Treaties and Germany's entry into the League had laid a foundation upon which it would be possible to set up a stable structure of peace.