AN END IN SIGHT?

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 10

AN END IN SIGHT?

Negotiations have begun between Nahas Pasha, Prime Minister of Egypt, and Mr. Henderson, British Foreign Secretary, for a final settlement of outstanding Anglo-Egyptian points. It is too early to predict a successful issue to the conversations, but it is encouraging that the negotiations have begun in a favourable atmosphere. Nahas Pasha was formerly less conciliatory than Mahmud Pasha, whose meetings with Mr. Henderson last year produced the proposals for a Treaty published in August, bi|t Nahas has evidently been warned by the firm statement made by Mr. Henderson that these j proposals are "the extreme limit"/ to 'which the British Government can go. In February, he issued a statement which described the proposed treaty as prompted by a spirit of conciliation. This would seem to injdicate a willingness to respond, and not to press too far for further concessions. In the past attempted settlements of Anglo-Egyptian differences have been hindered by the Nationalist habit of demanding new concessions wherever Britain showed a willingness to meet former demands. If Nahas is now prepared to negotiate on the basis of the August proposals there may be a different result, and a settlement at last of long-standing issues.