NO DECISION ON EGYPT’S PROTEST: PRESS WAR TALK

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1947, Page 7

NO DECISION ON EGYPT’S PROTEST: PRESS WAR TALK

NEW YORK, August 13. Egypt urged the Security Council today to order British troops out of the Nile Valley within 18 days or face the prospect of riots and bloodshed. Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) said that the only threat to Egypt s peace came from the Egyptians themselves. x He again asked the council to strike the Egyptian complaint from the agenda. . The council adjourned, without a vote, till August 20. • The Cairo correspondent of The Times says that the tone ol most ol the Arabic press since the opening ol the Egyptian case before the United Nations has become increasingly bellicose and truculent. Articles pi O'claim that if Egypt’s claims are not conceded there will be 3 wni of snioll Powers against the great. “One newspaper,” the correspondent adds, “insists that Egypt will purge the Nile valley of the Bi itish even if this is opposed by all countries of the Security Council. Another warns the British that the Egyptians may lose their patience and start a widespread revolution or guerrilla campaign,‘for which the British alone would be responsible.’ There is much more in the same vein. “Two Egyptian groups, who in their public utterances most strongly advocate violence against Britain, are the Moslem Brotherhood and the combined youth organisations. In the combined youth organisations, Communist influences are working until - ingly among the young Egyptians.