Mr. Chamberlain dismissed the idea of making the League of
Nations responsible for an Egyptian settlement, but we still hope that something may be done in this direction. We fully agree that the League could not possibly settle what is now being arranged between Great Britain and Egypt. Such an attempt would be unfair to the League and to everybody else. But when a settle- ment has been reached we should value the approval of the League if only for our own sakes. We should be saVed those tiresome pinprickings from which we always suffer when we have to defend our actions as the sole trustee of foreign interests in Egypt. Mr. Chamberlain's own proposal for an impartial Chairman of a Nile Com- mission embodies the very principle for which we are contending. Turning to his conversations in Paris and Rome Mr. Chamberlain gave no encouragement to the various rumours which have been . afloat. "No issues were decided, nor did we seek to make any new Treaty."
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