BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE TO EGYPT

Wanganui Chronicle, 16 July 1947, Page 5

BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE TO EGYPT

HOSTILE ADVERTISEMENTS IN US. PAPERS

(Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondent). Recd. 6 p.m. London, July 15 On the eve of the presentation of Egypt's complaint against Brita.n to the United Nations, full-page advertisements have appeared in American newspapers attacking Britain and alJegipg that she has Imperialist designs on the Sudan

New York reports state that the British spokesmen said Britain will answer this allegation by charging the Egyptians with trying to denounce the legal treaty in order to secure Egyptian dominance in Sudan. They claimed that the Egyptian attitude suggested Egypt believed that once the treaty became inconvenient to one of the contracting parties, it should be denounced. This was a point of view which would lead to international chaos, as it did between 1933 and 1939, when Hitler unilaterally denounced various German treaty obligations.

Britain holds that the existing Anglo-Egyptian Treaty still stands, and that the only reason last year’s negotiations for its revision failed was because Egypt insisted upon including a provision which would prevent the Sudanese from over becoming independent of Egypt.