Egypt is going through another political crisis. Ten days ago
the incompatibility between the Liberals and the Wafd in the Coalition came to a head with the resignation of the Liberal War Minister, not the first of the Liberals to resign. Opinion was at once divided upon the question whether the Prime Minister should resign or carry on with a Wafd Cabinet. Other resigna- tions have followed. On Sunday a complication was introdueed from outside by two opposition papers which published copies of documents which implicated the Prime Minister in very improper conduct in regard to the rewards which he and another Vice-President of the Chamber at the time should get out of the case of Prince Seif ed Din, who had been illegally removed from an English asylum in 1925. On Monday the King exercised his prerogative in dismissing Mustapha Pasha Nahas and his Cabinet, on the ground that the Government had been a Coalition one and could be so no longer. On the same day the King asked Mohammed. Pasha Mahmud to form a new Government. He is a Liberal who was Minister of Finance in Nahas Pasha's Cabinet until he resigned a fortnight ago.
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