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Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1929, Page 4

WKSTKKNISIXt; THIS XEAB EAST “Egypt stands half-way between Turkey, which has now disestablished Islam as the State religion, anti countries like Persia. I rap and India, where the effects of modern currents o! thought are, as yet. only partially felt. Like Turkey, Egypt as a whole jo spiopi o([j oj j[osjt poppumio.) sui[ Western civilisation, and she is especially sensitive to any criticisms which imply backwardness or lack of progress. But, unlike Turkey, Egypt has not taken up the same attitude towards Islam, that it is the stumblingblock in the war of national development. While there is a group of em.ient journalists and professors who have identified themselves in toto with Western modes of thought and Western standards of living, and who from time to time give expression to the same criticisms of Islam as are heard in Turkey—that if represents an Arab civilisation, and that it stereotypes political and social forms—nevertheless, they do not possess the same political influence as the Angora loaders, so as to lie able to give effect, in legislation to their ideas and ideals.”