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ING EUROPE,

FOLIOT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Dr E Benes, Minister for Foreig

tairs of Crecho-Slovakia, who was on

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In the course of a serios which Dir Valentine Chirel has contri- buted to the Times, he says:~On Novem Der 13th, 1918-two days

the Arm.stice-Saad Praha Zagblul and rome

is political and economio mission to Eng. of his politicat friends went to the Re-

landang. France, in the cou wafatementy, outlined his policy and the sidency and, claiming to be the spokesmen

reconstruction in Central: of the gyptian nation, Brat formulated Europe, and declared: their demands for the immediate recogni-ary object is to negotiate questions of tion of the come independence of trade and credit in this country, especial Egypt an ja SOMALIRAKOD with Bir

ely the economic and commercial relations wegiaid wingatö, of waach their organ between recho Slovakia and Britain, has just published a full report.

and particularly to ascertain what can This was the starting point of the

be done to prepare the basis for our agitation that has kept Egypt for the last fatare relations 12 montas in a constant turmoil, the cost

The position in Central Burope is very or which in money alone has been recently bad. Austria is in great misery, and to brought none to the Egyptian people by morrow Hungary will be in a similar con the insertion in the Budget of a sum of dation. The Allies cannot help chrectly 1,000,000 (£1,028,000) to provide cóm-on account of difficulties of transport and pensation for the loss of life and pro- other matters. The only country in a perty during the savage outbreak of position to give the needed and immediate violence in March and April lis. Whilst apccour is Czecho-Blovakia, owing to her very active and expensive propaganda pension of large supplies of cous, sugar, has been carried on abroad with extremelyg ariel, manufactured products. Our policy stender results, the British Protectorato is to help as much na possible the coun- has been recognited in the Treaty of trick surrounding us and to inaugurate Versailles, and nas thus received a mea

bena tresk political system in which ancient Sure of international sanction: which the hostilities shall be replaced by peaceful. brush cospation had never obtained collaboration. It must be remembered during the years before the Great War that the pacification of Central Europe Nevertheless, with that complete in- is not complete, d it can only be made ability to see things as they are, which complete by arrangement of new o delightful in children and so economia reis..ons. It is necessary to pathetic in nations that have not yet have, not only politically, but also emerged politically from childhood, an economically policy applicable to the attempt was made in Egypt to celebrate whole of Central Europe With this pur November 13th, 1919, as the Arst anni- pose before me I wanted to reach come versary of Egyptian "Independence" plete agreement with England and Except in the native Press, which cala France. Hence my mission. brated the occasion in lengthy and lyrical leaders, the attempt in the native Press, which celebrated the occasion in lengthy and lyrical leaders, the attempt failed to convey any impression of the earnestness which underlies Egyptian nationalism. In view of recent unfor tunato occurrences in Alexandria, the Egyptian Government had renewed the Prohibition of street demonstrations and it was only disregarded by bands of schoolboys, who stayed away from school to storm the tram-cars and give went to their vociferous patriotism in free joy rides and much fag-wagging, with the result, very distasteful to their parents, that the Government schools are now closed against them for a week as a dis capdinary punishment.

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DECLARATION OF BRITIER POLICY.

- On the very next day Lord Allenby re called Egypt out of the world of 12 sions by communicating to the Egyptian Government the declaration of policy which he had just brought back with him fron England. It was long overdde. - It is still perhaps somewhat lacking in pre cision, but it is far more definite than any ever made since the British Occupa tion, and it explains for the first time the nature and purpose" of the Proteo torate proclaimed five years ago after

entry of Turkey into the wax. it irants /

In Paris the French Government has accepted the general lines of my policy, and I am glad to say. I um, also in com- plete agreement with the British Foreign fofice. The Allies recognize that, Czeclio- Slovakia is the best organized and de veloped economic country in Central Europe, and is therefore the natural centre from which the new Central European po..cy shall be carried out. It therefore follows that it is desirable that the Allies shall help Czecho-Slovakia to full her mission. My purpose has been to convince the Allies of the necessity for this. My reception both in Paris and London has been most sympathetic, and it is expected that England and France will together advance £25,000,000,

WAR ON CO-FARTNERSHIP.

TRADE UNION ATTACKS ITS. MEMBERS.

At a meeting held at Fort Sunlight recently hundreds of co-partner employees passed a resolution protesting against the decision of the National Association of arpen And Joiners Excluding from of the union any employees

who

ore benefiting recognises Egyptian autonomy, and imder the co-partnership scheme. Re invites the Buitan and his Ministers and gently. Lord Laverhulme stated that the the representatives of the nation to dividends accruing from co-partnership operate in drawing up a new Constituwould be distributed as weekly additions tion, which will assure to Egypt a large measure of self-government under British guidance and protection. The Milner Commiss.cn is to come out for the pur PORE not of preparing on its own account a Constitution to be imposed upon. Egypt, but of collaborating in its preparation with the Egyptians them selves..

te wages which, be understood, would meet the requirement of the union. This was followed by the union circalaring its branches with instructions that any mem- bere participating in the scheme, on and after November 14th, would be excluded from the society in accordance with the rules. The co-partners, all trade unionista, of Lever Brothers yesterday On the surface there is undeniably a passed a resolution emphatically protest very wide difference between this peoing against the action of the union in gramme and the demands of the extreme threatening to expel from its society mem Nationalist Party. In substance, how-bers participating in the co-partnership ever, it goes a long way to meet the scheme. Co-partners recognised the just For if no reference is made to their claim to an immediato recognition of the prin- ciple of Egyptian National Indepen denes, a seil-governing Egypt, such as his Majesty's Government appear to con template, will in due course attain in fact te such a measure of independence as it

possible for a small country to main tain without the material support of a great Power interested in its conserva

tion.

Ia proportion as the mears of in dependence increases, Egyptians will re- cognize that the word Protectorate, robbed of the imaginary terrors which our silence as to its real significance has conjured ap, means, above all, the assur- protection against foreign interference and aggression which even the extremista adanit to be at present indispensable for the safety of Egypt together with the advice and co-operation in the progresive development of their country for which they also declare they would always look to Great Britain. They are, it is true, in a desperate hurry to reach that goal by a short cut and they insist that

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right of labour to a share of the profits which they had helped to make, and any attempt to prevent them from participat in in the benefits accruing from the scheme was diametrically opposed to

the the principles of trade unionism.

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The resolution continued: "We pledge ourselves to resist by all means in our power any interference with our liberty a free poople. One speaker said trade unionists had been fighting for years for share of the profits they helped to make, and now that the co-partnership scheme at Lever Brothers was a success, the very people who fought for it stepped in and wanted to smash it. Trade unions bad no right to interfere with a workman's income so long as the standard wage was paid, and the society must be brought to a state of common-sense, because it was victimising its own members. The raseln- tion was carried with cheers, and practi- cally means that the men will throw over the union rather than forgo the berienta of co-partnership.

main unfulfilled, but the whole trend of

these advantages ought to be scoure seen to have miscarried, and after n straight away.by a formal Treaty of Alliance to be substituted for the Protec-time many who were at first carried away torate and concluded after a specific res leading and whom it really serves. bh it begin to ask themselves whither. it cognition of Egypt's independence

But, so long a

new Constitution They chanot relish the answers that must opens up a prospect of genuine self-gov.they so very farm of authority being themselves to their minds when anggest ernment, and British co-operation in internal adminstration of the country undermined in the effort to overthrow Censon to take": the domination which it has tended more That sign they have now got. Will

form of an all-pervading British authority.

They have been pressing for "a sign from and more to assume, it may be hoped that reasonable Egyptians, however bitta it catisfy them? Maar of them, it must their disappointment, will look to the be feared, will set against our present substaner rather than to the shadow,

promises of self-government not only our Many promises in the past that still re The question is whether reasonable main unfulfilled, but the whole trend Egyptians any longer constitute the seemed to them sistematically directed to majority or possess the courage and discourage all independence of character ability to arrest the dangerous. rush down an inclined plane which

actually to reduce not to increase have set in motion, though extremists their phere in the governance mil, ad lead to conflict and anarchy, and how ministration of their country many of the extremiste themselves will Huch however, will depend upon whe have the intelligence and patriotism to the Lord Allenby can restore a feeling count the costs of an obatanate struggle alone can do it, and he is the man to de

that the country is being gow

governed Ho for the literal fulfilment of a programme more and more divorced from realiteit, for he combines, with a saldier's directe allicas, adversa" influences bave to heers of purpose a breadth of mind which reckoned with, but there are, fortunately genuine sympathy for the legitimate as is not always found in uldiers, and E also some favourable symptoms among pirations of the Egyptians that enables others the formation of a new and die him to make allowances even for their tinctly more moderate party who call most intemperate expression. Most of Independent Linerals FA the Nationalists I have met seem to ap zaging and tearing propaganda cannot preciate his personal qualities. It is to be kept up indefinitely at the same white be hoped they will now translate, their beat, especially when one of its main appreciation of them into practice for features, the appeal to foreign. Powers, they have reached the parting of the

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