Show region Imes as big as texas Is IB stake in egypto sudan defense U united n cited matlen consides Coni Consi iders drs plea of egypt to oust chut britain A vast territory over three thre and one half times as large as the state of texas is the stake in the pending petition of the egyptian government to the united nations to apel expel the british forces from the valley of the nile river particularly from the sudan the egyptian sudan is the large country lying immediately south of the kingdom of egypt shown on the accompanying map it is 20 times the size ot of new york state or six lix times the size of california I 1 LIBYA wp 2 I 1 wo 1 1 j MAP SHOWING EXTENT OF NILE VALLEY egypt on th the north bordering the mediterranean is e i sudan to the south reaching the al equator quator much of the land is rich and fertile the total number of inhabitants is about in the tha plea to the united nations egypt claimed that the british have overstayed overstated over stayed their deave in the nile valley i they came in to quell a disturbance took possession in the name of the egyptian government and soon began to entrench themselves for a longer stay the weekend week end stay has stretched tr etched out to 65 years and egyptians contend in their official request that the peace of the world is endangered by the continued occupation of their lands by an alien power the me most solemn assurances were given says bays in an egyptian spokesman in the british parlia ment n not ot only to the egyptian people but alsoto tho the powers of lope europa that the occupation would soon goon be b ended yet two ginera genera eions have come and gone sixty five years have been torn tom off the calendar and british bayonets bayoneta till still glisten in the egyptian sunlight A feint of evacuation wu was recently made to palliate aroused egyptian feeling the lines of ancamp encampment camp ment were moved back a few miles the british forces quit alexandria and cairo only to take up now new stations within an hours hour motor journey of egypto capital no forces were withdrawn from that part of egyptian territory called the sudan during recent negotiations the british pledged themselves vei to complete evacuation of egypt proper by 1849 this pledge was conditional on however the conditions involved concessions by egypt as to matters essential to her national policy of course egypt declined to barter on that basis she demands complete unconditional evacuation the unity of the nile valley li in a cardinal tenet of egyptian outlook the conception has not been invented to serve a political purpose it is imposed by nature and by history the people of the nile alla valley egyptians of the north ind and egyptians of the south alike depend for their very existence on the nile its waters quench their thirst thin grow their crops generate their power without its bounty all of egypt would be a parched and barren desert the mlle mile long nile welds egypt in the tha north and the sudan in the south into one no natural frontiers divide one section from the other the present boundary between egypt and the sudan made in Bri britain tsin is entirely artificial it is merely InAgi imaginary nary nature bestowed on it not even a semblance of a sanction the population of the valley of the nile forms a single community A majority of the people are am of the same racial stock they have common traditions a common culture and a common religion arabic is their common I 1 language from time immemorial ewt egypt and the sudan have been united from the tha centuries of the pha rachs throughout the graec roman era during all the thel years I 1 of arab and turkish ascendancy the bonds were kept intact in the nineteenth century mohammed aly the great cemented the union in a single political organization not until the british invasion was any serious challenge ever offered to the unity of the nile |