BRITISH IN EGYPT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17179, 8 February 1930, Page 5

BRITISH IN EGYPT

TREATY PROPOSALS CABINET CAN NEGOTIATE (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Presi Asku.) CAIRO, Feb. 6. The Chamber of Deputies resolved, with four dissentients, to grant Cabinet a. mandate to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain on the basis of the British proposals. IF BRITISH LEFT EGYPT BELGIAN’S FEARS . “ALL EUROPE IS CONCERNED’’ BRUSSELS, Dec. 19. M, Fernand Neura.y, a director of La Nation Beige, predicts to-night that the result of the British Government's policy in Egypt, as indicated by the draft treaty, will .be bloodshed. “It is the opinion,” he said, “of residents of Cairo and Alexandria who have written to me that the hot-heads of the Egyptian Nationalist Party (the Wafd) will never be content with the British on the banks of the Nile." Ho continues: “Until they have the reins of government in their hands, until they have the handling of the State and its Budget, until the limits of their ambition and cupidity have been satisfied, they will continue to shout about oppression and persecution, The end of the adventure is net difficult to foresee. England, even under Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, will never retreat, will never efface herself enough for these agitators. “We shall again experience the uprisings, the agiitations, the assassinations, and the repressions of 1921 and 1922, and Egypt will come out of the nightmare less free and less happy. “Furthermore, if ever an English Government completely evacuated Egypt, some other Power would without hesitation install itself in her place. “ ‘Egypt,’ said the ancient Herodotus, ‘is a present of the Nile.’ It is also a present of England. “England lias cleaned, pacified, and enriched Egypt. The day that England leaves it all Europeans can pack their bags. “But what traditional England has done, is Socialist England going! to undo? It is the business of the whole of Europe, with Franco and Belgium at their head.”