If there had not been British troops in Egypt the
Mandi would have led his conquering hordes to Cairo and the Delta and overwhelmed all Egypt with a nineteenth-century version of those raids from South to North which played so large a part in ancient Egyptian history. We saved Egypt from the Sudanese and must now save the Sudan from an experiment in governing savage races which the Egyptians are quite unfit to carry out. If Egypt contrives in the course of the next twenty or thirty years to solve the problem of self- government and deals justly with her own people, then, no doubt, the Sudanese co-religionists may ask to join them. If they do, the British people will no doubt be perfectly willing to agree to such a union. To hand over an unwilling Sudan to an ill-founded and arbitrary Egyptian claim is quite a different matter.
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