EGYPTIAN TREATY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 March 1928, Page 5

EGYPTIAN TREATY

ITS REJECTION. CONFLICTING VIEWS. LONDON PRESS COMMENT. 1Y CABLE- PRESS ASSOCIA'I lON-COPYRIGHT Received 9.50 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 8. The ‘‘Morning Post” does not regret the rejection of the Egyptian treaty, and says that it likes least the proposed intrusion of the League of Nations upon the Egyptian scene, adding: “Our Foreign Secretary, in his infatuation for Geneva, was willing to lay the vital communications of the British Empire at the hazard of reference to the League. Fortunately Sarwat and his friends did not share that enthusiasm. If the Wafd had possessed more guile it would have accepted the treaty and the conditions, in the confident hope that some futuie Council of the League might make trouble for the Empire in Egypt.” The “Daily Telegraph” describes the failure as a political tragedy and the'' intervention of blind destructive forces to wreck the work of good honourable intention. SELECTION OF PRIME MINISTER. SUMMONS TO WAFD LEADER. TALK OF A DISSOLUTION. Received 9.50 a.m. to-day. CAIRO, March 8. King Fuad 1 has summoned Naims Pasha to the palace. The Wafd no longer desires Nahas to take the reins of office. It is believed that the only solution is a dissolution.