The Manifesto of the Independent Labour Party, issued on Tuesday,
in regard to the Egyptian situation, cannot be allowed to pass without a protest from us as to the way in which those who have drafted it treat the Sudan. They declare that the Egyptian people have as much right to govern themselves as any other nation, and- yet forget to say a single word as to the monstrous claim of the Egyptians to impose their domination upon the Sudanese. It is also most unfair to speak, as the Manifesto does, of the appropriation of the water supply from the Nile to the detriment of Egypt and to the advantage of the British Cotton Companies. This is the kind of innuendo which does so much to poison political controversy. One would imagine from the Manifesto that the Sudan had not any rights in the water that flows through it, and that this water was the sole property of Egypt. That is the kind of claim which the Pasha class in Egypt used to make. The peasant culti- vators were not admitted to have any rights in the matter I • * *
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