Egypt To • those who remember the struggles between the
Egyptian Liberal Party and the Wafd there must be something cynical about their alliance against the predent Government. They gambled before the election on the tactical manoeuvre of boycotting the. polling booths. The Government declared it illegal to try to prevent any free citizen from voting, and proceeded to stifle the Opposition's, election campaign so far as possible. For this or other reasons the Government has received a good majority after a stormy election with some blood- letting round the booths. We have little reason to support one party or another except so far as the British political responsibility in Egypt demands that we should folloW " The Duke's " old maxim that the King's' Government must be carried on At present Sidky Pasha seems best able to carry it on by hook or by crook. Great Britain is not at present interested tlulough any immediate expecta- tion of proposals for a new treaty. * * * *
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