2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 2

If Herr Stresemann, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, was

correctly reported last Week he was guilty of a serious error of judgment in raising the question of War-guilt as an immediate sequel to Germany's entry into the League: What we chiefly dread is that Germany should use her membership for trying to remedy minor grievances, real or alleged, instead of .working for that better European spirit in which all such grievances will be forgotten. Herr Stresemann, of course, knows perfectly well that the acknowledgment of Germany's War-guilt, embedded as it is in the Treaty of Versailles, cannot be disavowed • without in 'effect tearing up the Treaty. That would be such a challenge to the Allies, partieulatly to France, that one could not foretell whither it might lead.