TREATY TALKS WITH BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24820, 9 March 1946, Page 7

TREATY TALKS WITH BRITAIN

EGYPT’S DELEGATION APPOINTED PREMIER REITERATES DEMANDS (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 8. King Farouk has appointed a 12man delegation, headed by the Egyptian Prime Minister (Sidky Basha) to negotiate with Britain for revision of the 1936 British-Egyptian Treaty "so as to achieve Egypt’s national rights,” says the Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press. Other members of the delegation are Nokrashy Pasha, whom Sidky Pasha succeeded as Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister (Sayed Pasha), and the King’s uncle, Sabri Pasha. In submitting names for the King’s approval, Sidky Pasha said that all classes of Egyptians unanimously approved of the Government’s demands for the evacuation of foreign troops and the union of Egypt and the Sudan. Reuter’s Cairo correspondent says that the delegation consists of representatives of all parties except the Wafd, in the following proportions:— non-party members eight, including Sidky Pasha; Kota Party, one; Saadist Party, two: Liberal Constitutional Party, one.

Sidky Pasha yesterday announced after a Cabinet meeting that he was going on with the formation of Egypt’s delegation for the treaty negotiations With Britain Without the Wafdiste, whosA conditions for participating were unacceptable.

Students at the Fuad University in Cairo left their classes yesterday under an agreement dot to resume until the completion of Egypt’s treaty negotiations with Britain. Two hundred youths gathered yesterday afternoon at the Saad Zaghoul square, which was the scene of Monday's rioting, and began smashing what remained of the British military Sost. The British have hot occupied je post sinte the riots. Four mote of the Egyptians injured Ih the riots died yesterday, mafang lhe death roll 21.