NEW EGYPTIAN TREATY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 797, 18 October 1929, Page 9

NEW EGYPTIAN TREATY

FREE WILL OF PEOPLE ESSENTIAL FIRM AND LASTING BASIS British Official Wireless Reed. 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. Referring to the British proposals for a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty, during a Press interview published in Egypt this morning, the British High Commissioner, Sir Percy Loraine, stated that the only treaty which possesses any real value for Great Britain, or which offers any real prospects of linality and durability, is one concluded with free Egyptian consent. “The British Government is not concerned with the national political complexion of any Egyptian Government with which the treaty may be signed. All it wants to know is that the Egyptian nation is behind its own Government in endorsing its signature to the treaty. In that way alone can the British Government’s earnest desire be realised, of placing AngloEgyptian relations on a firm and lasting basis of goodwill and mutual understanding and co-operation, and of ensuring the mutual support which is the essence of an alliance. “A will to apply the treaty must exist alongside the will to sign, and that will can only function in a spirit of mutual regard and mutual confidence, and with the common understanding of the common aim which the treaty consecrates.” Sir Percy Loraine records the impression that the leaders of Egyptian thought have an appreciation of the problems which Britain and Egypt have solved, arid the advantages of closest understanding, and that these leaders will guide the Egyptian people, whose verdict on the issue will be decisive.