The Egyptian Problem (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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At a time when self-government is recognised more clearly than ever before to be the keystone of the British Empire and has been set before the peoples of the greatest of our Oriental dependencies as the goal which they also shall reach, it is not unreasonable that Egypt should claim something of the same boon as the corollary of the permanent association With the British Empire into which we sought to force her during the war by the proclamation of a British Protectorate. Were that her Whole claim, few if any responsible Englishmen would refuse to go a long way to satisfy it Without questioning too closely the actual fitness of the Egyptians to govern themselves. But the Egyptian Nationalists, who have at least temporarily carried the bulk of their articulate fellow-countrymen With them, go much further than that.

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