EGYPT WANTS FREEDOM

Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1946, Page 5

EGYPT WANTS FREEDOM

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Premier Replies To Critics WARNING NOTE SOUNDED

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I Received Monday, 11.30 a.m. ! LONDON, May 12. 1 Sidky Pasha, in a letter to tlie London Times, said that critics of Mr. Attlee's liberal policy towarus Egypt appeared to be people who wer'e still imbued with prejudices based on worn out conceptions of armed- domination and safety of jiiiipire communications. They fori got many peoples had developed and now thought for themselves, and refused henceforth t6 be mere j instruments to the supremacy of 1 the great and powerful. These ! people realised the necessity of . adapting themselves to support j those who were stronger . than | themselves, but wished to do so not ; by alienating their freedom and : dignity as independent peoples. ! "Such is the case of Egypt and i this fact must be realised in Lon1 don, as well as Sydney, Ottawa and 1 Capetown," said Sidky Pasha. "It , must be understood that the good faith and goodwiil of Egypt, not tne troops and airmen stationed in the ; country, enabled the Ailies to win the Middle Eastern war. The Egyptian troops, in accord with the 1 military staffs of Great Britain and , the Security Council, would in - future safeguard their own counj try." Sidky Pasha said he was convinced that Lord Stansgate and his delegation realised the unanimous determination of the whole nation to live free in its own territory and no longer undergo the humility of foreign occupation. He warned that this determination must be respected. If disregarded it would entail . the gravest -consequences.