Two important statements concerning the future status of the British
Empire have been made recently, and they have done much to clarify the atmosphere. Firstly, Lord Parniocir'S" arinminceinent in' the House of Lords that the Government did not intend to abandon the Sudan in any sense when fie rightly pointed out that, while the Government held to the policy decided on in 1922 in regard to Egypt, the question of the Sudan was in an entirely different category. He repeated Mr. Lloyd George's statement made early in 1922, that His Majesty's Government " would never allow the progress that has already been made in the Sudan and the greater progress of future years to be jeopardized." Then came Mr. MacDonald's statement in -the House of Commons last week as recorded in the Spectator. Despite all that has been taking place in Cairo' since these announce- ments, including the resignation of Zaghlul Pasha and the Sultan's refusal to accept it, well-informed Egyptian opinion cannot have imagined that the British Govern- ment would have taken up any other attitude. * * * *
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