SUDAN’S RIGHTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 5

SUDAN’S RIGHTS

CHOICE OF FUTURE BRITAIN REMOVES DOUBTS TALKS WITH EGYPT LONDON, Dec. 9. T -.2r up misunderstandings over iion of the Sudan in relation Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiate Foreign Office expained that ime Minister. Mr. C. R. Attlee, j : ted the Governor-General, Genchl Sir Hubert Huddleston to make his statement on December 7 because of the situation created in the Sudan itself as a result of earlier partial disclosures of the Sidky Pasha-Bevin conversations. -"Continued silence by the Sudan Government in face of a one-sided interpretation, which aroused the feelings of a large section of the Sudanese people, would have resulted in serious unrest,” said the Foreign Office. ‘‘ln the circumstances, the Sudan and British'Governments cannot be blamed for riming their position clear.”

All the British were trying to do was to establish that when the time was ripe for the Sudanese to choose their future, they should be free to choose. Britain could not acquiesce in the interpretation of a treaty denying a fundamental right of free people. The exchanges of views are proceeding.