Capitulations

Many an Egyptian statesman has quailed before the British High Commissioner for Egypt, large and resolute Sir Miles Lampson, but last week the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who does not mind being called a "coward", sent Sir Miles from London to Cairo to capitulate in important respects to Egyptian Nationalism.

Dusky Premier Mustafa El Nahas

Pasha was pleased to learn that Mr. Baldwin is prepared to withdraw British troops from Cairo shortly and haul down the British flag from its citadel. He is further prepared to withdraw "gradually" large British forces now at Alexandria and elsewhere in Egypt. According to a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty undergoing final negotiations this week, defense of the Suez"

Canal would ultimately devolve upon Egypt. Said Egypt's Premier, after receiving Sir Miles: ''Everything is going well." Few weeks ago the treaty negotiations were "nearly wrecked," according to Egyptian statesmen, by British Cabinet demands made at the insistence of the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Hailsham, onetime British War Minister. These "extreme and humiliating demands on Egypt," a member of Premier Nahas' entourage beamed last week, "the British have now dropped."

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