Captain Millet discussed with great candour, and in the spirit
of an avowed disciple of Lord Cromer, the concessions which justice, as well as enlightened self-interest, would compel the French to grant to the natives in view of their services during the war. A radical policy of naturalization would be doomed to failure, if oily bemuse the Algerian natives were Mohammedans. The problem was to reconcile a liberal native policy with the retention of the sovereignty in the hands of the French element, and this middle course he believed the French Government were likely to follow. Captain Millet ended by declaring that British and French rule in these parts of the world would stand or fall together ; that the maintenance of British power in Egypt was essential for the safety of France's North African Empire ; and that if we were to develop successfully these countries, each of us according to his own genius, we must support each other in the future even more firmly than in the past.
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