One possible result is that the Liberals may be forced
into a more strongly anti-Monarchical movement than they really desire. On the other hand the Liberals may be able to save the situation to an extent which is not indicated by the mere figures of the election. It .seems that Zaghlul, pleading ill health, will refuse to become Prime Minister and that his place will be taken by Adly Pasha Yeghen, a Liberal leader who is both liked and respected. Whatever a Liberal Prime Minister might be able to do in the way of mitigation, however, the control would ultimately come from Zaghlul. We must hope that Zaghlul, as the result of his experiences, will refrain in future from truculence or from making such grotesque demands as that Egypt should be given control of the Sudan—a demand which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald met with a most vigorous negative in 1924.
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