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On Thursday, the 19th, at Cairo, the new Egyptian Constitution

was signed. The Constitution was drawn up by a Commission appointed last autumn. Since then there have been persistent attempts to make it less democratic. These attempts culminated in the Nessim proposals, so called from Nessim Pasha, the late Premier. These, however, were finally rejected. Nessim resigned and a Cabinet was formed under the present Prime Minister, Yehia Pasha Ibrahim. Considerable con- cessions were made by the British, such as the release of Zaghlul, the suspension of the prosecution of mem- bers of his organizations, and the abolition of the military Governorship of Cairo. These have led to an agreement on the Constitution which has thus been signed.

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