BRITAIN AND EGYPT

Greymouth Evening Star, 31 May 1928, Page 7

BRITAIN AND EGYPT

CANADA’S FREEDOM OF ACTION. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) OTTAWA, May 30. Correspondence between the Governments of Canada and of Great Britain on the Anglo-Egyptian treaty has been tabled in the House of Commons. The Premier, Mr McKenzie King, therein gives the reasons for the Canadian Government’s action in declining to become a party to such a treaty. The Premier says: “We could not contemplate recommending Canada to participate in its ratification and signature.” It is observed in this connection that: “It was His Majesty’s Government of Great Britain which directed the policy as to its relations with. Egypt, which negotiated the present draft agreement; and which is to administer the provisions and the annexes set forth in the treaty. We consider that, were the issue to be raised as to the assumption by Canada of military obligations in Europe, or in the Near East —as it inevitably would were the Canadian Government to recommend entering into a military alliance with Egypt—it would be prejudicial to the relations between Canada and the other parts of the Empire, as well as to the interests of Canada, itself.”