BRITAIN AND EGYPT.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17980, 27 March 1930, Page 7

BRITAIN AND EGYPT.

NAHAS PASHA IN LONDON. NEGOTIATING A TREATY. SPIRIT OF CONCILIATION. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright. (Received Alarch 27, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, Alarch 20. ' Tiie Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Hon. A. Henderson, together with officials of the Foreign 'Office and the Egyptian Legation, to-night met the Egyptian Prime Alinister, Nahas Pasha, and other members of the Egyptian delegation, who have come to London to negotiate a settlement of outstanding Anglo-Egyptian questions. The negotiations will be based upon Hie proposals for an Anglo-Egyptian treaty published last August, after conversations in London between

Mahmud Pasha, then Egyptian Prime Prime .Minister, and Mr Henderson. These proposals were described by Air Henderson in a covering letter as representing “the extreme limit to which lie could recommend the British Government lo go in their desire lo achieve a lasting and honourable settlement.” Nahas Pasha, who, after the Egyptian Parliamentary election succeeded .Mahmud Pasha tis Prime Alinister, issued in February a statement describing the proposed treaty _as prompted by a spirit of conciliation, and received from the Egyptian Parliament a mandate to make the. present. journey lo London lo negotiate. ■The British High Commissioner, Sir Percy Loraine, is already in London, and will assist in tiie negotiations.