FORMER EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS tation of service when they were obliged
to leave the country.
This rough treatment did not necessarily condemn them to the dole, as you implied. Thanks to their own efforts, and to the exceedingly friendly and effective help they received from organisations such as the National Union of Teachers, most of the displaced, educationists managed to found a new life for themselves either in Great Britain or abroad. This re-deployment of professional ability has taken them as far afield as New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, Iraq, Cyprus, East, South and West Africa, and Libya. But they face a difficult future: they are entitled to no pension from the Egyptian Government, and unless they receive before long the com- pensation which is their due, their anxieties will be unrelieved.
As for the attitude of the British Govern- ment, this is sufficiently well described by the words of your editorial: this Government has not secured the financial position of the dismissed British officials, nor has it guaran- teed them alternative employment. Never- theless, British authorities are doing what they can to support the officials' case vis-b-vis the Egyptian Government.—Yours faithfully,
HERBERT ADDISON
56 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey
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