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Should the British Government, therefore, recognise as we hope in all sincerity they will that British, Egyptian and international interests all call for a speedy acceptance of these proposals as a basis for settling outstanding problems between the two countries and that any delay in dealing with the situation is fraught with grave harm to future Ango-Egyptian relations and to the cause of international peace, then there will be no difficulty in reaching the desired agreement.
But if all efforts after this long time prove abortive, the British Government are no doubt aware of Egypt's attitude towards the 1936 Treaty and the 1899 Agreements. This attitude had béen frankly and explicitly stated by the Egyptian Gernment on many occasions the latest being the speech from the Throne addressed to the Egyptian Parliament in November last.
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