DR. STRESEMANN RACK

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 504, 6 November 1928, Page 9

DR. STRESEMANN RACK

WELL AFTER LONG ILLNESS WELCOMED BY FRIENDS AND ENEMIES ALIKE (United I*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, Monday. Looking surprisingly well after his long illness, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Gustav Stresemann, returned to Berlin to-day to resume work at the Foreign Office to-morrow. Arrangements have been made, however, to relieve him of details to enable him to concentrate on important decisions awaiting his attention. Even the Nationalists, who fought bitterly against Dr. Stresemann’s share in the Locarno Pact, welcomed his return as the _ _ man best fitted to Dr. Stresemann CO p e with current problems, but they call on him to deal with the so-called new FrancoBritish Entente which developed during his illness. The newspaper “Germania” particularly urges Dr. Stresemann to check “Anglo-French deviations from the Locarno course,” and thus preserve Germany’s belief in the Locarno Pact. Even Dr. Stresemann’s enemies, with scant justice, declare that the German foreign policy has been leaderless during Dr. Stresemann’s absence. Dr. Stresemann, who had been ill for seme time before, signed the Kellogg Pact to outlaw war at Paris on August 27 last. On this occasion he was accompanied by his physician. Two days later it was reported that he was suffering from exophthalmic goitre, and it was feared that he would have to resign. Herr von Schubert was named as his successor. It was a curious coincidence that the leading delegates to Locarno, Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Bn and and Dr. Stresemann were all seriously ill at the same time.