EGYPT AND BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 5

EGYPT AND BRITAIN

IMPROVEMENT IN RELATIONSHIPS.

MISSION OF ECONOMIC INQUIRY.

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Rec. 8 p.m. London, April 10. The members of the Egyptian mission of economic inquiry were guests at a Government dinner last night. Responding to a toast of success to the mission Hafez Afifi Pasha said economic relations between Britain and Egypt had grown up naturally and spontaneously, and it was with a view to exploring the possibilities of consolidating and developing those relations, ensuring their continuity and fostering their healthy growth that they had been invited to Britain. The difficulties inherent, in these trade problems were evident, but they were reasonably hopeful of an eventual happy issue to the common efforts.

The Egyptian Minister expressed the r. hope that the Foreign Secretary and other Ministers would visit his country i-~ at no distant date. Intensification of economic and commercial relations between Great Britain and Egypt, he added, was the surest way of smoothing over difficulties in every sphere and removing misunderstandings.