[?]REATY TALKS WITH EGYPT

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5312, 27 January 1947, Page 5

[?]REATY TALKS WITH EGYPT

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wate still uncertain mrJTAIN'S effort to w avoid breakdown

-Rec. 11.80 p.m.)

jfl CAIRO, Jan. 26. H' A British correspondent *avs that it is not yet certain myhefher the Egyptian GovSernment is to break off the Btreaty talks. The Egyptian JHCabinet me* twice during the jH(]ay to discuss a message dejjHlivered by ihe British AmbasjHsador. The Note is believed to SHhave been a last-minute effort ®to avoid complete breakdown. 9 The Prime Minister said at the ^■onclus'on of the second session that Government's decision would be ^■iven to the British Ambassador o-ver jSie week-end. and annonnced to the ^Bjgyptian Pailiament to-morrow. 9^ The Daily Mail's diplomatie corres^■ondent says that if a break occurs -Hi ihe necotiations it will have been !9ause( ^o!e !;• bv the Egyptian Gov- j Brnment'.- obdurate refusal to admit 9hat wkn tio time comes the Sudan9se people shall be free to ehoose ^^R-hetber thev shall be united with Bgyrit or independent. H EverythiniT else has been settled, ^Khut the Egyptians insist that the ^■Sudan Protocol shall be so framed Has to imply that the union of ■Egypt with the Sudan under the ^■Egyptian Crown is permanent. 9 It is n riaim no British Goverh- . ■sent ean accept. If the negotiations Hefinitely cnl. Ihe legal position is ■hatthe 1936 treaty remains in force.