“TO SAVE, NOT DESTROY"
MAHMUD STATES HIS POLICY WAFDISTS TO MEET (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.J Times Cable. Reed. 12.33 p.m. LONDON, Wed. The Alexandria correspondent of “The Times” says it is reported that Wafdist senators and deputies intend assembling on July 28 and declaring themselves the lawful assembly of Parliament, in a similar manner to 1925, when the Wafdists of the two chambers gathered in the hotels of Cairo. The Prime Minister of Egypt, Mohamed Pasha Mahmud, was interviewed at Alexandria. He said: “Mussolini in Italy and Kemal Pasha in Turkey believe in dictatorship, but I am a Constitutionalist. I believe in a parliamentary regime. 1 am saving, not destroying, the constitution.” He said the Government intended to execute a large draining scheme In Egypt and the Sudan in the autumn, to ameliorate the conditions of the small cultivators.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 416, 26 July 1928, Page 11
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