Egypt and Her Constitution On Tuesday, Nahas Pasha and his
Cabinet resigned. This rather startling development is, due to the efforts of the Wafd to redeem a pledge, given before they came into power, to provide against any future illegal suspen- sion of Parliament. A Bill of Impeachment has been drafted, but it is clearly provided that it should have no retroactive application to the person of Mahomed Pasha Mahmud, - the recent Dictator. Evidently, Mahmud's friends were busy while the Wafd dele- gation was making its bid for Egypt in London ; . and King Fuad, recognizing only too well the. dangers of the Parliamentary regime as at present understood in Egypt, refuses to close the door against a possible further period of emergency government, Both in the Chamber and in the Senate, Nahas Pasha and his colleagues received unanimous support.
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