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Show CONDITIONS FOR EGYPT OUTLINED BritaL Explains How She Will Loosen Hold if Assurances As-surances Are Given LONDON-, Jan 30 (By the Associated Asso-ciated press) The government's statement state-ment outlining: tho basis on which It will terminate tho Egyptian protectorate protector-ate and recognize Kgypt a. a nor ireifim state seemlnaiy him done nothing to remove the opposition In quarters where Its past proposals h.i- been condemned. In these circle the statement state-ment Is made that the new offer differs dif-fers no ways In substance from Hi previous ones. The Daily News terms the offer "tepid rechauffe" and calls the declar ation "a monument to th Impotenl timidity nf n divided cabinet." The WeHlmlinter f;.aette thinks the statement does not in anv way ."up-port ."up-port the miRfrestlun that the Kovorn-ment Kovorn-ment Is about to abandon Its so-culh-.l police of coercion, nnd declarer It impossible im-possible that any Egyptian nationalist will accept the proposal which v.. Qreat Britain the risrht to garrlsonl the principal towns of Egypt The Morning Post Bays ih' present delaratlon does not differ materially! from the treaty already rejected, and thinks the ree iii of Qeneral Allen by iiiish commissioner, is proof of th se-rious se-rious crisis there. LONDON, Jan. 30. tBy the ASBO-clnted ASBO-clnted press) The basis on which tlv British government would bo willing to terminate the Ejryptlnn protectorate, protector-ate, recofrnizing Egypt an a sovereign stale, and to acres to th' establishment establish-ment of an Egyptian parliament Is announced in a statement officially circulated Sunday by the foreign office. of-fice. "The hlsrh commissioner In Egypt," it says; "has bean summoned to England Eng-land to Rh'' full Information and advice ad-vice to his majesty's government .astoi the situation In Egypt. RE ISONS FOR 1 l'N "There appxars to lie an impression' in some quarters that Great Britain has abandoned or Is about to abandon her liberal attitude toward Egyptian aspirations, and desires to make use of her special position In Egypt to maintain a political and administrative system there Incompatible with the freedom she haa declared her willingness willing-ness to recognize. "This not the ease. The pollcv of his majesty's government has been founded on the following principles: "While unwilling: to cede to disorder or vIoIitio what they were prepared to grant on Its own merits, his ma-J' ma-J' sty's government haa explicitly stated j their readiness to Invite parliament to tirmlnale tho protector i dorian I I 1914 to recognize the existence of Egypt BS h sovereign State and to agrSe to the constitution of an K- Itian parliament and re-esta bllshment of an Egyptian ministry of foreign af- j fairs, When they wero satisfied SB to the following conditions which th I regard as vital to the Interests Loth of Egypt and the empire: HERE IRE oMUTIOXS "They must have full and effective guarantee thai tho Imperial communications communi-cations are assured, that Great Britain Brit-ain retain both tho right and power to afford that protection to the foreign for-eign communities In Egypt which the governments of these peoples in the existing conditions look to her to sup ply and that Egpt Is safeguarded against all foreign interference or ag-giesBlon. ag-giesBlon. ' As soon as an agreement satisfying satisfy-ing these conditions has been drawn up between the Egyptian government and the British gove nment there will bo no hesitation on the part of tho latter in Inviting parliamentary sanction sanc-tion to such an accord." |