Egypt The King and Prime Minister of Egypt left this
country on Tuesday, and on Wednesday the result of their visit was published. No treaty is signed to come into operation as yet, but Mr. Henderson and Mahmud Pasha have agreed upon the terms which they propose to embody in a form of treaty to be submitted to the Parliaments, of which the Egyptian has yet to be elected. There is little in the proposals that surprises us. They have just gone a little further on the same lines that Sir Austen Chamberlain and Sarwat Pasha tried to follow. Great Britain will support Egypt's application to enter the League of Nations as an independent Kingdom. That ought to mean the substitution of the League's authority and responsibility for some of our own. We shall be allies in war, which the League and the Kellogg Treaty ought to avoid, and shall take counsel as friends in any dispute with a third party. We are to hand over to the Egyptian Government the responsibility for the lives and property of resident foreigners. Here we shall need to defend ourselves from charges of shirking respon- sibilities that we have undertaken. We now undertake also to support the change of the capitulatory rtime. By the military clauses British troops will quit Egypt, except to the East of longitude 32° E., i.e., in the Suez Canal zone ; and any foreign military instructors will be British. The condominium over the Sudan will be re-established as in 1899, a most serious matter of our responsibility for a backward people.
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