EGYPTIAN POLITICS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13166, 27 January 1936, Page 5

EGYPTIAN POLITICS.

PARTY DEADLOCK PREVAILS.

POLICE AND TROOPS STAND BY

United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CAIRO, January 25. Yielding to the King’s views Nahas Pasha is reported to have agreed to form a neutral cabinet on condition that he heads a commission to negotiate with Britain with a majority of Wafdists. CAIRO, January 24. The political position is grave, and troops and police have been ordered to stand by. Provincial Governors are remaining at their posts, but a complete party deadlock prevails. The Wafd proposes a Wafd Cabinet and a Royal Commission, including representatives of the minority party, to negotiate with Britain for the provision of seats in the new Parliament for the minority.^ Nahas Pasha urges that a neutral Cabinet should conduct the election. The United Front leaders, Mahmoud Pasha and Sidky Pasha, decided that the Wafd proposals are 1111 acceptable, and favoured the formation of a coalition with Britain and to submit the result to the electorate prior to the elections. Nahas Pasha, in an interview, said that King Fuad remains master of the country.