PARTIES IN EGYPT
POLITICAL DISSENSION ANTI-BRITISH PRESS LONDON. Jan. 13 The Cairo correspondents of the Times and the Daily Telegraph both suggest that things are not going happily with the newly-formed United Front. The chief complication at the moment is the Arabic press attacks on Britain s participation in the new railway to Mersa Matruh, near the Libyan border, as another British method of tightening her hold on Egypt. This campaign is sponsored bv those opposed to the Wafd Cabinet as distinct from a Cabinet with a United Front personnel. It is now suggested that to thwart this anti-Government campaign,, it should be proposed that Egypt bear the whole cost of the railway. The Wafd is showing a disinclination to permit the United I' ront to conduct treaty negotiations with Britain. It is even suggested that the Wafd may withdraw from the United Front if the point is pressed, as it is seemingly convinced that the elections gave it authority to negotiate a treaty as the most powerful party.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22317, 15 January 1936, Page 11
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