7 JULY 1928, Page 5

News of the Week

rrHE satisfactory side of the tedious and huckstering labours at the end of which Herr Muller has suc- ceeded in forming a new German Government is that all the uncertainties have not for a moment put the Republic in danger. The Republic is, indeed, as Herr Muller said in his opening speech to the Reichstag on Tuesday, fixed and stable. It is for this reason that we shall do well to attend to the claims which the new Chancellor presented for the consideration of other nations. Germany has taken her place on a status of equality with the greatest (as her membership of the Council of the League testifies), and she is justified in asking that the recognition and help given to her should accord in fact as well as in name with her new position.