EGYPTIAN POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22779, 15 January 1936, Page 7

EGYPTIAN POLITICS

THE UNITED FRONT PARTY WAFD MAY WITHDRAW LONDON, January 13. The Cairo correspondents of The Times and the Telegraph suggest that things are not going happily with the newly-formed United Front, the chief complication being the Arabic press attacks on Britain’s participation in the Mersamatruh railway as another British method of tightening the hold on Egypt. This campaign is sponsored by those opposed to a Wafd Cabinet as distinct from one with a United Front personnel. It is now suggested that to thwart this anti-Government campaign the Finance Minister should propose that Egypt bear the whole cost of the railway. Meanwhile the Wafd is showing disinclination to permit the United Front after the election to conduct treaty negotiations with Britain, and has even suggested that the Wafd should withdraw from the United Front if the point is pressed, as it is seemingly convinced that the elections will give it the necessary authority to negotiate a treaty as the most powerful party.