“Incredible Folly”
EGYPT’S REJECTION OF TREATY HOME SECRETARY’S VIEWS British Wireless —Press Assn. —Copyright Reed. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Friday. The Home Secretary, Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks, in a speech last night said that the Egyptian Government, in rejecting the AngloEgyptian Treaty, had displayed almost incredible folly, and a total inability to appreciate realities. Britain had gone to the utmost limits, he said, in negotiating with them, for no British Government would ever be prepared to jeopardise British interests by acceding to demands for further concessions. With regard to the immediate future, Egypt and Great Britain would automatically revert to the position created by the declaration of 1922. The treaty was at an end. The Note that the British High Commissioner, Lord Lloyd, delivered on behalf of the British Government, which was entirely responsible for its terms, said that in a matter of this kind there were no party questions whatever. The late Labour Government and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald had been just as firm as the Government of to-day.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 300, 10 March 1928, Page 9
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