28 JULY 1928, Page 2

Egypt was astonished on Thursday, July 19th, by the publication

of a Royal Decree dissolving Parliament— both the Chamber and the Senate—and suspending the Parliamentary system for three years. In spite of the astonishment we suspect that the plan had been in the making for some time. King Fuad would not have so uncompromisingly dismissed the Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, the other day if he had not felt that he could rely upon a successor in the office—the present Prime Minister, Mahmud Pasha—who would carry on the Government by means of Decrees. Unless there is a counter-revolution against this constitutional revolution the King and Mahmud Pasha will themselves govern Egypt for the next three years, when there may or may not be a return to Parliamentarism.