EGYPT'S FUTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 228, 26 September 1929, Page 14

EGYPT'S FUTURE.

LABOUR'S PROPOSED TREATY. OVERSEAS LEAGUE ADDRESSED. Steps that led up to Egypt's desire for autonomy were explained to members of the'.Qverseas League last evening, by the Rev. W. Monckton. He dealt fully with theorise of the Nationalist party, headed by the late Zaghlul Pasha, and explained the. offers made by the British Government in 1822, after there had been disturbances in Egypt. Britain, among other, things, claimed the right to veto an/bill passed by the, Egyptian Parliament. No' agreement was come to, and there _ tho matter ended for the time being. 'When the Labour Government came into power one of the first things it did .was to offer to , grant Egypt selfgovernment in a treaty which was to come up for approval by the Egyptian Parliament. The treaty embodied all . the main points • of tjie 1922 proposals of the British Government, with the difference that 'the-only communication to be safeguarded was the Suez Canal, which was ,to be guarded by British and Egyptian troops jointly. The two armies were to co-operate in the Sudan also, while the protection of minorities in the country was to be left entirely to the natives, who. were to be given control of all Courts, if they proved capable of administering them. A great advance had recently been made in the development of the legal system.. Egypt would also seek admission to the League of Nations.