SUEZ CANAL.
EGYPT AND ITALY. LONDON, Jan. 11. The Cairo correspondent of the Times understands that Egypt has demanded that Britain should permit the last word regarding any Italian claim for a seat on the board of the Suez Canal to rest with Egypt, which firmlv rejects Italy’s claims. A recent suggestion in a Wafdist Party newspaper that Mr Chamberlain had been authorised to champion the Egyptian viewpoint in Rome drew a notably strong official denial, which declared that Egypt would speak for herself. At the some time, the vigour of the French reaction to Italian pretensions is admired and applauded, and hold to have strengthened British resistance to any blandishments calculated further to upset the status quo in the Mediterranean. This is thought already to have been threatened by . the recent renewal of Italian colonisation in Libya and the reinforcement of the garrison there.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 12
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145SUEZ CANAL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 12
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