14 APRIL 1928, Page 17

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Bilateral negotiations between Great

Britain and Egypt are difficult enough. An accommodation between the vital needs of the one and the logical claims of the other

would become almost hopeless were we to invite the interfer- ence of foreigners under the name of" League of Nations." The mere suggestion of such a course is likely to encourage the intransigeance of Egyptian Anglophobes. They are masters of intrigue and were experts at playing off one " Ufrangi " people against another till we bought a free hand on the Nile by sacrifices in Tunis and Morocco. Do you ask us to re-don our manacles ?—I am, Sir, &c., H. W. BERRY, Aspley Guise.