The Egyptian Reply to the British Note of May 30th
is friendly but evasive. It is thought that Lord Lloyd will send a -Memorandum to Sarwat Pasha urging him to give definite answers to the British questions. The real point is whether the. Egyptian Government intends to respect the arrangement of -1922: If it does mean to do so it cannot persist with AS scheme of placing an Egyptian officer at the head of the Egyptian Army. Great Britain could not have undertaken all the obligations which she shouldered in 1922 if she had contemplated the possibility, of there being a potentially hostile army in Egypt. The influence of the extremists is .clearly very strong, but we sincerely hope that within a few weeks it will be possible to enter upon discussions about the four reserved points. There will always be trouble until these are, formally at least, put beyond the range of dispute by being defined in a Treaty.
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