REVOLUTION COMING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 12, 14 July 1930, Page 9

REVOLUTION COMING

WAFDIST MANOEUVRES

ALARMIST ■ STATEMENTS ,

(Received 14th' July, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, 13th July

The "Daily Mail's" diplomatic correspondent declares that Egypt is on the verge of revolution. The Wafd is,determined to win supreme power, whatever it means. Britain, as befoie, will have to clean up the mess. Though the AngloEgyptian Conference in London broke down, the Wafdist delegates attained their real objective in stretching Mr. Henderson's extreme limit of concession. They then.went home, proclaiming that they had upheld Egypt's rights and gained new advantages as a starting point for future negotiations. Wafdism then manoeuvred itself into an unassailable position, directing internal affairs to its own advantage, and whittling down British influence in every way. The Wafdists, fearing that King Fuad would repeat the 1928 coup d'etat and dismiss the Government, swiftly provoked a crisis with Bills for the "protection of the Constitution," markedly limiting the powers of the ruler. Fuad refused assent, and the Nahas Cabinet resigned. The Wafd is extensively stirring up trouble, and its leaders in London and Cairo talk openly of the coming revolution.