• We regret to record the death of Sarwat Pasha
at the age of fifty-five. He will long be remembered and honoured as an Egyptian statesman who spent his strength in trying to achieve an Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which would be satisfactory to his countrymen as well as to Great Britain. In the Coalition Cabinet of Adly Pasha in 1926 he bore almost the whole weight of govern- ment on his shoulders, and when Adly Pasha resigned in 1927 he became Premier, though his health was already showing signs of giving way. He was resolved to direct the cause which he had made his own of re-establishing with Great Britain the good relations for which he had been responsible in 1922. He came to London to discuss a treaty, and it is well known that he had the approval of Zaghhd who at that time had become convinced that conciliation was the only way. Most unfortunately Zaghlul died just when Sarwat most needed his help. Sarwat has often been blamed for keeping the conduct of the negotiations in London entirely in his own hands. That may, or may not, have been a mistake. The Times correspondent says that Sarwat's reason was that he feared that if he called in collaboratow. he would risk such intemperate comment in Egypt as would wreck the negotiations. At all events, he completed the Treaty as the sole Egyptian representative. The rejection of the Treaty by Egypt was the culmination of those many strains and disappointments which had been under- mining his health.
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