EGYPT'S FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 228, 20 June 1919, Page 8

EGYPT'S FUTURE

"INDEPENDENT MEDITEIiKANEAN "KINGDOM."

In tho course of his presidential address to the African Society recently, Sir Harry Johnston foreshadowed a future for Egypt as an independent Mediterranean kingdom worthy of the dynastic Egyptians who founded it, and who contributed so largely to the greatness ana intelligence of modern man. To this level, enid Sir Harry, Egypt ought gradually to he educated and tc educate itself. Onco we were assured that it had become too modernly concated to give wav to religious fanaticism and persecution," or to dishonesty and waste in finance, we should not Ire eager to continue our military occupation or our control of the internal government. Certain it was that wo had no desiro to colonise Egypt ourselves or let any other European nation do so. The' Sudan to the south of Egypt, however, must, remain longer, under direct British control, because it was inhabited preponderating!}' by negroes, and could not he trusted to the .sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons of.the Egypt of the Turkish Pashas. For the safety of the British Empire and of tho League of Nations, of which we should be the mandatory, wo should have to occupy indefinitely tin Sinaitic peninsula and defend tho Suez Canal. . '■<