4 MARCH 1922, Page 2

The future status of Egypt will resemble that of Cuba,

which is in theory independent and is a member of the League-of Nations, but which is in fact strictly controlled by- the United States. American' marines are in- permanent occupation of the coaling stations at Guantanamo and Bahia Honda; and when the Cuban politicians revert to their 'ancestral methods of revolution and anarchy, Washington does not hesitate to intervene on behalf of, law and order. From August, 1906, to January, 1909, for example, Cuba was governed by an American Commission: Egypt, hire Cribs; will 'be a free, sovereign and independent State under the watchful control of a guardian, who will allow no one else to interfere, with her. It is one more constitu- tional anomaly- for the British Empire.