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AMERICA AND THE CRISIS

one and

TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 19, 1935.

NOTES OF THE DAY EGYPT Has an All-time

ELECTIONS AHEAD ·

Elections loom in Britain. From this day onwards we will expect to sce a hustling and bustling on the part of candidates of nil parties, an elaboration of polley, a whip- ping up of sentiment and the usual oratorical effusion. This will be an occasion when the Government will not appeal to the electorate on the strength of past performances, but rather on a platform in which the nation's future is more vitally con- corned. In vilect the co-operation- ist theory will be put to the vote again; the publlo will be asked to decide whether or not they approve or union Government. But more Important than that, the electorate will express Ita apfulan with res-- pect to British pulley in European affairs, and more particularly in the matter of Leaguo netion against Italy, in which the Govern» ment of Great Beltalu has played"

A# # the lendhur role thus far. matter of fact, whether the public votes Labour or Union, the only of

ALLY By Maj. C.

JARVIS

The British Governor of the Peninsula of Sinai in Egypt.

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Sand, says Major Jarvis, is Egypt's perpetual ally against invasion from Italian territory..

An all-too-tre nasis, such as pictured above, is insufficient to support even a small army in the wastes of the Libyan deserts,. which are Egypt's natural allies in the westé

GYPT is both unfortunate success, It will not alter the British adherence to the League of Naphical situation. tions Covenant, and therefore will not materially disturb the, nation's foreign policy at relations with neighbour nations. More import ant still, the cause of Anglo-Italian friction will not be removed by the defent of the Union Government, for Labour is just as determined to thwart Italian ambitions in Ethiopla and to put a stop to the war, even at the cost of conflict. A

the Government victory for would vindicate its diplomatists, however, and, would most certainly strengthen the British hand at

The fortunate side of her

It is, as you may imagine, a Geneva and in international dent ings generally. A defeat for the situation is the hundred and WHAT was true in 1916 applies first-class seaplane base at the to to-day and the Libyan head of the Gulf at this apoi Government, while it would not thirty miles of desert on her alter the complexion of internation- eastern frontier and the wilder Desert, with its seas of sand is a landing ground whilst at al affairs in which Britain is in-ness to the west, which in the dunes and vast stretches devoid the top of the pass in Sinai is volved, would almost certainly have light of modern means of trans- of water, provides an absolute one of the finest natural aero- an undesirable moral effect, in port provide a fairly effective barrier to anything but a smail dromes in the world-a vast clay dicating public dissatisfaction with barrier to invasion.

raiding party in cars fitted with pan 11⁄2 miles long and 11⁄2 miles the work of such men as Mr.

low pressure, oversize tyres wide, with the surface of a bill- Anthony Eden and Sir Samuel

I say 'fairly effective advised- and raiding parties with attend- iard table. Hoare. Realising this, and that ly, for with the general advance ant aircraft, though trouble-

in efficiency of aircraft and some, cannot effect invasions. motor transport the difficulty of. crossing a sandy waterless de-

If Siwa had been captured and tralia, and the Far East, thus the beginning of the Senussi in- Iraq pipeline might possibly be vasion and half-a-dozen arm bifurcated and led to Akaba if Her position on the map of oured cars with twenty attend the need arose, and it might pro the world at the corner where ant Fords could have done it in vide a very useful deep water Africa joins Asla is of such three days-the Senussi inva- anchorage for a fleet. All these strategical Importance that even sion, which has probably added are possibilities, and, this being if the Suez Canal did not exist Gd. to the income tax of to-day, the case, I think it high time her territory would always be would have been scotched in the that Egypt definitely establish- coveted for necessity's sake by first three months. Water is ed her claim to the Island of any Great Power who happened the only thing that matters in Tiran that commands the south- to be aiming at naval supremacy the desert, and with the springs ern entrance of the Gulf. Tiran in the Mediterranean. African of Siwa denied to enemy is obviously Egyptian territory,

and in Roman days was colonies, or Mid-Eastern commit- Egypt is safe.

Roman-Egyptian custom station.. menta.

two pariles given a chnuce E and fortunate in her stupru, held by our menn and avoiding Suez Canal duets,

'n change of Government would is no way make the country more secure from war, the electorate is nearly certain to react in favour of Unionism. In this time of crisis the people of Britain will bo well advised to follow the axiom of the

until you're out of the storm..

woodsmen: Don't change your coat

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The only possible route into

sert decreases from day to day. Egypt from the West is via the coastal road from Sollum. to Alexandria, and this necessitates!

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IN 1916 and 1916, when Egypt also the command of the sea, was faced with an invasion for the frontage on which an by Senussi Arabs from the west, army could move is an exceed- our military authorities were ingly narrow one.

hopelessly at sen, for they were Last autumn Italy occupied that an invading army could Egyptian and Sundan borders, apparently under the impression the tiny oasis of Owienat on the cross the Libyan desert at almost and about 1,200 miles from any point and strike at the Nile Addis Ababa. With the threat Valley, to the south.

of war in Abyssinia the value of

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at Brokers' Alley is to be fitted with camp-bells during the rush

BERRON,

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In view of American ideals and her frequent chanipioning of the oppressed, there is some- thing anomalous in the fact that offering opportunities to settlers The fact that South America is the United States is standing reminds us that there is still land in North America which needs a aloof in the present crisis

friendly handa till It, HOW arising from the Italo-Ethiopian

Some people think bowling a crops over it, and enjoy dispute. It is true that Ameri-ita bounty, One of the

In any case, they certainly this tiny waterhole as a fuelling pastime. Judging by the number ca is not a member of the most incomprehensible stinations

from an economie view exists in held the view that an overwhelm- and watering station for aircraft of gifts showered upon interpor League of Nations, but she has

ters, it's more like the present- Canada to-day. There,

Ing force could march via the cannot be over-looked. where

time.. for the prin- some 11,000,000 people inhabiť a repeatedly stood

oases of Jarabub-Siwa, Baharia ciples on which the League land where you could dump and or Dakhla and Kharga to

THERE seems to be a consider. structure has been built, and it completely lose the British Isles, Egypt proper.

and mast of Europe, they have suf-

able amount of doubt as to -cannot-be-forgotten that it was fered-the-same--depression-which-

A contemporary referred to To guard...against this they whether the little port of Akaba, a former U.S. President who the rest of the world has gone garrisoned Kharga-the Fayoum at the head of the Gulf of Seinssic-as-a-town-They-cer-- was largely responsible for the through. Of all the countries of the whole length of the Nile Akaba, belongs to Egypt, Pales-tainly put him on the map.

the globe we might have expected Valley with troops urgently re- tine, Trans-Jordan, bringing of the Geneva organis-that Canada would not have been quired elsewhere and tied up in Arabia, SSSSSE ation into being. However, in floored, or even staggered, by de Egypt some 30,000 to 40,000

Providing her popuin-

perfectly the present crisis, the United pression.

reasonably divided be- troops watching a States has declared its neutra-tween agricultural und industriai empty desert when it should is only recently that Palestine Saint of Bowlers. We thought he lity, by an Act which is well and professional pursuits she would have been obvious to the poorest has begun to administer her merdly played for the K.B.G.C. described as a kind of negative l'have been saved that ordeal, we brain that Siwa-which is easily small holding at the head of the believe, But thore is no accessible by car-was the key Gulf, and Akaba itself, though co-operation in that it assures

such equitable distribution of of the position.

definitely in Trans-Jordan, was that there will be no effort to

labour. While thousands have

administered by King Husscin 10 the cities, look- ship munitions to either party locked

Actually eleven rather vermin- so long as he was King of Saudi for white-collar jobs and ous Senussi Arabs managed to Arabia, in the war

now raging in

easy living, farmers have been un- get across the desert to Dakhla, ☛ Ethiopia. It is not without

able to get hands to harvest their and it is estimated that they cost It might provide a port for interest, in this connection, to crops. True enough, there has

us about £2,000,000 a head-a' Palestine for all commerce going been no profit in agriculture in big price for an Arab.

to or coming from India, Aus- note the suggestion by

Canada for the past few years; of America's leading

but the happiest man in the coun- most impartial journals, the try was he who had a little, self- Christian Science Monitor, that supporting pince, growing his own feed, making his own butter, cat- if the United States is to asserting his own fruit and vegetables. an actual interest in the pre- And the only thing that keeps servation of peace, its Execu- many more men from owning such comfortable little homes is the fact tive should have authority to

that ownership entails hardship of apply a selective embargo la sort, work which makes the hands against the belligerent found rough and stiftons the shoulders guilty of aggression. Touching after a day behind the "Buck-to- the-Farm Movement." We believe on the general question of that agriculture, and less of 80- neutrality, the journal remarks called city culture, that while there is great merit in attending to one's own business, in this modern world, as in 1 modern city, what the nation does not elect to take ita proper responsibility as a affects the safety of one from member of the world com- violence and aggression becomes munity, it will notwithstanding the logical concern of all. The be torn either by emotions or keeping of the peace becomes, trade to violate its own neutrali- matter hot only of public ty.. The final summing-up of the position is worth quoting spiritedness but also. of enlight, in full. It is "The isolation- oned self-interest. Nations can ist neutrality of an all-round more escape the moral embargo may be at present the obligations of the world in which best that can be done, and is they live than can individuals. certainly better than free ship- Indeed, one has little right believe that ultimately there to criticiso unless he is willing will be found to be less military to do something about it. That risk and more national honour something need not necessarily in keying policy to the further- be war, though it will definitely ance of world peace and justice, involve the risk of war. In to the end that wars may not occur, than in attempting the long run, says this com a kind of isolation which is mentator, it is not likely that likely to end in going to war completo isolation can prove to protect the solely material: either possible or desirable. If interests of a group of pro-

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We're beginning to wonder whether, under the sanctions plan, it will be illegal to ont spaghetti.

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Motor-car brakes are to much stronger; it is announced. This should enable some of our motorists, instead of running over a man, to stop right on top of him. = O

A scientist says civilisation will last 50,000 years. Maybe, but when will it begin?

Ballroom frocks are so long. nowadays that a young man has to learn to remember faces.

so many

Perhaps the reason women suffer from foot trouble is

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