Abstract

A New Status for Egypt

Egypt is standing again at the threshold of one of those momentous decisions, which it is called upon at rather frequent intervals to make. The Prime Minister, Mohammed Pasha Mahmud, has only recently returned from London, England, with certain proposals "for a lasting and honorable settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian question." A parliament is about to be elected which is to determine whether or not these proposals shall be accepted as the basis of a future Anglo-Egyptian treaty. If they are accepted, Egypt is to have sweet foretaste of that emancipation from British control for which its leaders have long been yearning. If, on the other hand, the proposals are rejected, British and Egyptian pessimists who despair of settling Anglo-Egyptian problems except by force, one way or the other, will probably find their ranks appreciably enlarged.