"Most Hypocritical"

When Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain arrived in Manhattan last week (see p. 27) the volley of cheering was not unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,/- she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English. But because her subject was the proposed Anglo-Egyptian Treaty (TIME, Aug. 19), which Prime Minister MacDonald's British Labor Government offers as the "extreme limit" to which it can grant Egyptian independence, hypothetically granted in 1922, Mme. Garzouzi's voice shivered and swelled. Said she: "Never trust an Englishman's promise or agreements where British interests are at stake. . . . Who, knowing them, would be so foolish as to take them seriously? Not we Egyptians surely. . . . The Labor Government--the MacDonald-Henderson-Snowden-Thomas lot--is the most hypocritical. . . . We were dragooned [by the Conservative Government in 1922] into signing an agreement which binds us to surrender our liberties for another 25 years. . . . They promised to take British troops out of Egypt. Did they do so? They merely moved them from one part of Egypt to another. Well, there is one thing sure. Egypt is awake and will not tolerate this hypocrisy and tyranny much longer! It will not last 25 years. I promise you that!" While Mme. Garzouzi spoke in Manhattan, her countrymen were echoing her words with action. The intense Nationalistic Wafd party ("Egypt for the Egyptians"), violently opposed to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, forced the resignation of Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, puppet dictator, chief Egyptian negotiator of the Treaty. Plump, passive King Fuad invited neutral Adly Pasha Yeghen, twice Prime Minister, to form a "temporary" cabinet, permitted him to restore the parliamentary regime. The new leader immediately announced that in the coming universal-suffrage elections the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty question would be put directly to the people.

/-Code Napoleon, Native Code, Religious Code, Consular Code.