The crisis in Egypt seems to be dissolving More quietly
than its natureled anyone to expect; It is quite untrue to say that Lord Lloyd prohibited' Zaghlul from forming a Ministry. Zaghlul with his overwhelming majority, had, of course, a constitutional right to take office if he chose to do so. Evidently Lord Lloyd convinced him that the result of-his doing so would be extremely bad for Egypt. Zaghlul, as everyone knows, is committed to unrelenting hostility to the reservations made by Great Britain about the safeguarding of the Canal, the retention of the Sudan and the protection of foreigners. He owes all his success and popularity to his persistent hostility to the British case and if he took office he would feel bound to continue in the same vein. His followers also recognized the extreme danger of his taking office and expressly begged him not to do so. A Ministry therefore has been formed by that respected Liberal, Adly Pasha Yeghen.
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