12 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 2

In the debate Count Westarp, the Nationalist leader, tried to

make reservations and to explain away the complaisance of his Party. But he soon gave up the attempt to convince an. unresponsive audience. After all, Herr Stresemann's foreign policy has coincided with the liberation of the Rhineland, the evacuation of the Northern Rhineland Zone, the end of military control and the settlement of the disarmament dispute. No Nationalist .statesman could possibly have produced such results. And they stand to the credit of men who tried all the time to keep the Army in its proper place—subject to civil control. Not only Germany but all Europe will be safer when the Reichswehr is delivered finally from the influence of the militarists.

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