We have written upon this subject elsewhere, and here we
need only say that if Egypt is- to have self-government, we would much rather retire altogether than share the government with Egyptians under some such form of dyarchy as is being intro- duced in India. As has been already proved in Egypt, the brain of the Englishman can work effectively through native hands, but the authority of that brain must be supreme. A division of responsibility is fatal. The native brings about the failure and the Englishman gets the discredit. In such an office of trusteeship as we have performed in Egypt it is possible- to assign powers under the trust to the trustees. You can give up a trust, but you cannot share the responsibility so long as you hold the trust. A dark era opens, we fear, for the Egyptians who are not officials but under-dogs. We hope it may be possible to provide for the reference of disputes between Egypt and the Powers to the League of Nations.
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