The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-30
Crushing of
the Re be lion,
Ahmed Fouad
May Go Into His
tory as the Last
of the Egyptian
Sultans

, In Egyptian service, the disappearance
OF every British soldier from Egyptian
SOIL and last but not least the owner
ship and naturalization, that is, this
complete control, OF the Suez Canal.
OF gratitude to England for all
she has done in behalf of the Egyp-
tians there is none. The people ars
blind to the fact that Great Britain
gave to them for the first time in CEN
turtles safety OF life and property and
freedom from all the horrors and cru
| elites and exactions of the worst forms
of Moslem misrule. They forget that
England diminished their taxation by
SO per cent, that she trebled, and even
quadrupled. the cutivabls area of the
country by means of marvellous works
OF irrigation, and that she had en-
dowed them with an altogether WON
dertul PROSPERITY.
The Nationalist go on the basis than
even admitting these to be benefits
they would rather sacrifice them than
receive them at alien hands. To what
extent they are affected by Bolsheviki
doctrines, with which they have so
much in common. l am unable to say
with any degree OF defniteness. But
IL ID II ldCt tIluL aCCOTUlllB u uC"S IT,
ceived from Russia around Christmas
time there were not only q number OF
Chinese and Hindus among the stu
dents Of the great central college OF
Bolsheviki doctrines at Moscow. but
also a score of Egyptian Nationalists-
Intended Appeal to Wilson.
When a fortnight or so ago the Eng
4 1iai, atfthnritiaa in EpIYnf xanAd
somewhat too late in the day to the
gravity Of the Nationalist danger,
commenced TO take steps toward it's
repression. its leader. Saad Zaghoul
Pasha (who had been Khecive Abbas's
Minister OF Justice) announced his de-
cision to leave at once for France with
a delegation OF his party In order to
invoke the intervention of the Peace
Congress at Paris, and more especially
| that Of the President Of the United
States, in behalf of Egyptian national
ism against the British. on thA
strength Of the Woodrow Wilson doc
| trines Of self determination. Instead
Of either imprisoning Saad zaghoul
Pasha and his associates on charges
OF sedit!on. or else Of speeding them on
their way to Paris, the English au-
thorities made the mistake of arrest
ing them. deporting them to Malta
and then setting them loose. this hav-
| ing the effect OF striking the spark
that started the confagration of in
surrection.
OF course the Nationalist rebellion
will be suppressed Just in the same
way that the Nationalist revolution Of
Arab Posha was crushed in 1882. For
rs long as Great Britain wishes to re-
main paramount in India and to con-
serve the sovereignty of her huge
Oriental empire with its teeIning pop
ulation OF more than 800, 1000 she
must retain control OF the Suez Canal,
and there can be no question Of it's
| ownership or management by Egyp-
tinn nat!onalism. But after the exps~
rience OF the last four decades EnR-
land must assuredly have come to the
conclusion that the attempt to rule
the Land Of the Nile through native
agencies is n hopeless task, and that
the Condominium between a vassal
Sultanate and the British Crown, while
practicable in India through its 70
moteness from Europe. is impossible
In Egypt, where the only way OF ad-
ministering the country Is through an
English Governor General and Eng
lish officials on the same lines that
France has adopted for her rule Of Al
geria.
Egypt. 1t may be recalled, was ruled
for many centuries by a long series OF
Sultans. sirty-nine in number one OF
them being woman. the famous Sui
tana Sheteret-Ed DUR. They came to
an end when Egypt was CONQUERED nv
the Turks in 1869. When England in
1914 revived the Sultanate in the per
son OF the late Prince Hussein he was
the SEVENTEEN Sultan OF Egypt. The
enormously fat Fouad. son of Khediye
1smail by his remarkable Bedouin
wife (she is still alive and unable to
read or write, but very clever), is the
seventy-first, and as it now seems In
destined to pass into history as the
last OF all the Sultans OF Egypt.