Cairo, Dec. 11.
With the aim of reviving the Muslim Caliphate and uniting Egypt with: independent Moslem country by political and economic treaties and to ce-operate with them in assisting the other Moslem countries to obtain their liberty, a new party styling itself "AI Islah" (The Reform) has been formed here.
Maitre Abdullah Abdullah Mohamed, a lawyer practising before the Mixed and National Courts, is president, and practically all the members of the committees are also lawyers.
The party has published a 14-point programme which provides for securing "Egypt's sovereignty over all the territories through which, the Nile runs from its sources to the Mediterranean." The party will work for the strengthening of the foundations of constitutional life in Egypt and raising the standard of morality and fighting vice. Its National Defence plan comprises a peace-time army of 300,000 and demands compulsory military service, Other points include varioüs soci reforms and the improvement of the lot of fellaheen and the conditions of workers. The Muslim Caliphate was abolished by the late Kemal Ataturk in 1924.—Reuter.
The Secretary of State urged the delegates to make "sincere efforts" to find means of strengthening who foundations of international which he said had been undermined and impaired in many parts of the world It was equally important, he continued, to extend and secure the bases of sound, healthy economic relations. He described this as one of the longest strides it would be possible to make toward re-establish ing world peace.. Indirectly Mr. Hull severely criticized Germany's anti-Jewish activities, but he made no direct mention of specific instances.
Meanwhile the members of the USS. delegation were today carefully preparing the ground for further action.
It was understood that Mr. Hull had already submitted for the coneration of the leading delegates the sauestion of whether the American nations should join in a forceful, binding agreement designed to bar the aggression of foreign ideologies in the western hemisphere, No Signed Military Alliance Conversations between various delegates today hinted that Mr. Hull's plans might be considerably beyond present in us. Although it was emphasized that the discussion of Mr. Hull's proposal was thus far entirely preliminary, nevertheless it was said that the forceful character of the suggestion had caused a beneath-the-surface sensation among the delegations.
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