28 JANUARY 1928, Page 2

The Conference of German Premiers at Berlin which has been

considering the relations of the Reich with:the different States has appointed a committee to inquire into the whole subject. The question, therefore; whether Germany is to be technically a Federation or technically a Unitary State has not been decided, but is to be squarely faced. Probably a long time will be required for a decision, and possibly the decision will come in the end not from the mouth of a committee but through the force of circumstances: The various States of GermanY were dynastic, and now that the German Emperor and all the smaller hereditary rulers haVe been swept away the ' German people have almost a clean slate to write upon.

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