The Archive · 1928

Government Condemned

July 22, The Wafd Party has issued a manifesto expressing its unqualified condemnation of the suspension of Phrliament. It accuses the Government of forcing Egypt back when Eastern nations like Syria, Iraq and India are progressing and securing a parliamentary and constitutional life, and charges the Government with breaking their oaths in order to satisfy the ambi tions of foreigners, and their own, but without calculating the result of the grave social crises "whose consequences God alone can fore-

Attitude of British Government Unchanged London, July.23.

"T have no statement to make regard to the recent developments in Egpyt. The attitude of the British Government remains _unchanged. It regards the Egyptian Parliament and Constitation, marily, as matters for the King of Egypt' and the Egyptian people to detexmine"—this was the reply of Sir Austen Chamberlain to three questions in the House of Commons regarding the suspension of the Egyptian Parliament.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account