The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 2

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928.

.A NOT 11 ER EOV I‘TIAX CRISIS. ! Wiikx Malms L’a.shu, the political heir jul X;i ■:i 1 1 11 1. succeeded to power ill Egypt n low weeks ago. it was hoped I •,loit i lie ro-imnsibilities of office might | i nch him moderation. But either his or.ii c-niviclions are just as -extreme us ! Ll l o must: violent Nationalists could do- { sire, or lie has made up lii.s mind to ■ • j:.! 11 \- j :oiiis" in a Nationalist ucn.se |I n’ iin* purpose oi winning the next election. Whatever be the cause, the Note dispatched l.v Malms in reply to 13 i it a in's recent warnings, says a contemporary, was an uncompromising rei:o• t ion of Britain's claims, and .Naims m• is.i now either foivo through the legislation, which the British Government has vetoed. or he must, as the •Daily Kxpre's'’ puts it. commit poli-lii-al suicide by .submission. There is sont’ihing pathetic in the obvious siu- : ,‘i-ity of the Nationalist assertion of Kgvj t’s right to complete freedom and independence. But I lie Note says a great deal more for the patriotic fervour of the I'lgypfians than for the l-nliiie.’d judgment- of their leaders. Malms asserts that Egypt will he satise;i with nothing less than complete earn nr-ipa t ion from foreign control. Me maintains thni Egypt i.s aide and willing to defend the Suez Canal with her own army and navy, and that Britain Ims n i excuse for interfering there, mi- ?• inviied to do so. More than this, he insists that Egvnt is now a sovereign .Slate in her oil’ll right, and is therefore no longer an alien dependency of Britain, hut an ally. Characteristically enough. Malms lias not ati emptied to face the two most difficult prebli'nis with which Britain is concerned the safety of Kgvnt on the side •I’ the Sudan, and the protection of loroign rights and interests. The demand for the withdrawal of all British officers and the reorganisation of the b Optian army on Nationalist lines really means that Egypt is to he left exposed to future invasions from the Sudan, with little hone of defence or escape; and the “Sunday Express’’ holds that Britain’s only course now is to di-miss the Egyptian troops altogether ami place the Sudan entirely under British military protection. As to the proposed abolition of the capii "larm y Courts, it is certain that, whatever Britain may do, the European Powers will never consent to leave tin*ir nationals to the guardian care of tin' Egyptian Government. The programme outlined I»v Malms in his Note i- tlierelore as hopelessly iin pact tea hie. Bn' these considerations may not deter him from attempting to appeal to the extreme .section of the Nationalists with the object of eairving the elceu ’-iis “oil a wave of frenzied Chauvinism.*’