MUTUAL ALLIANCE CONCLUDED

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 17

MUTUAL ALLIANCE CONCLUDED

BRITAIN’S NEW TREATY WITH EGYPT DIPLOMATIC SUCCESS ACCLAIMED British Official Wireless (Received August 28, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, August 27. The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty will not be ratified until Parliament has an opportunity of discussing it. It is expected that ratification on the Egyptian side will take place about November. After the exchange of ratifications and registration of the Treaty at Geneva, a number of matters will arise, including the question of the admission of Egypt to membership of the League of Nations. English Press Comment “Tire Times” commends the AngloEgyptian agreement and says that the critics who have been denouncing the alleged surrender of British Imperial interests can scarcely maintain their attitude now that the text of the Treaty is available. The conversion of the uneasy, unequal and uncertain association of the last eighteen years, into a friendly alliance between two equally independent and sovereign States is a diplomatic success, on which both Governments are to be warmly congratulated. The editorial stresses that the conquest of Abyssinia had created a situation with common interests and dangers that have assisted the negotiators. The Importance of the agreement cannot be exaggerated.