Wairarapa Daily Times (Established Over 60 Years.) WEDNESDAY, 16th SEPT., 1936. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 September 1936, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times (Established Over 60 Years.) WEDNESDAY, 16th SEPT., 1936. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TREATY.

A long period of misunderstanding and recurrent ill-feeling lias been closed with the settlement of Anglo-Egyptian friction and the agreement for a twenty-years’ treaty of friendly alliance. No doubt the reactions from the Italian campaign in Abyssinia have helped towards recognition in Egypt that British protection still has its value in an uncertain world. Not all the Anglophobia

of could disguise the. Signiff&ince? of movements elsewhere—that Britain was striving to establish federal self-govern-iu! ludjia, had as an independent State under the' League of Nations, had sponsored a hew and astonishing prosperity in Palestine, and had won again to friendly terms with the new Turkey. Every State in the. Levant respects Britain and trusts her; British influence in that region has been re-established beyond any doubt. The effect in Egypt Avas natural. Gradually each side abandoned an unyielding attitude. Thereafter a solution depended only upon patient persistence in pressing a compromise founded on the facts of the case. Once the Egyptian Government recognised tliat, in the event of war threatening the Empire’s communications, British concern for the Canal zone and the Nile delta must become vital, and freedom of action to assure their defence imperative, the question of • maintaining a peace-time garrison in Cairo presented no difficulties. The 1922 proposals, to remove that garrison to the Canal, were again offered, conditionally upon a right to freedom of movement in Avar emergencies. To this Egypt agrees, and agrees also to build the cantonments required on the Canal and adequate military roads connecting the Canal Avith Cairo and Alexandria.