News of the Week
The Premier in Berlin THE Berlin visit of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. -I- Henderson, which began on Monday and ended on Wednesday, represented technically the sequel to the Chequers visit of Dr. Bruning and Dr. Curtius at the begin- ning of June, and the renewal of friendly contacts appears to have had all the good effects that might have been hoped of it. Mr. MacDonald is at his best on these occasions and his studied declaration of confidence in the recuperative power of Germany gave just the psycho- logical stimulus needed at this moment, while from another point of view there was considerable sagacity in his reference, in reply to a question on treaty revision, to his Reichstag speech of three years ago, when he laid it dovin as fundaniental that there must be no revision by war. The conversations in Berlin, which covered disarmament and hours in mines as well as the financial situation, have been followed in Paris with that slight uneasiness which the Frehch, or rather the 'Paris newspapers, always manifest on such occasions. There has obviously been no ground for that this time, particularly as Mr. Henderson went out of his way to emphasize the reality and the importance of the Franco- German rapprochement effected during the German Ministers' Paris visit. That will no doubt be developed When M. Laval goes to Berlin.
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