The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-29

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British Lord Gets Sick.
Lord Allenby, British high commits
sioner in Egypt, is i'll. He is Aept
under close guard. British employees
in Alexandria and Cairo are practical
ly working under armed guard. The
number of troops in the streets has
been increased.
Lies Bad Second to Force.
LONDON, Nov. 2S.--The Egyptian
crisis is engaging the chief attention
Of the capitalist press. While the &C
ton of the government is endorsed,
it is feared that the hasty dropping
of the pacifist camouhage worn by the
British ruling class during the reign
Of Macdonald, would have damaging
effect on British diplomacy. Still, the
British capitalists know that lies are
only bad second to force AZ q means
Of attaining its end.
Considerable comment is made on
the fact that former Premier Asquith,
leader Of the liberal party, or what is
left Of it, is interested to the extent
of 100000 in irrigation works and
cotton planting in the Sudan. His
firm received concessions last year
from the government for the develop
ment Of cotton planting. In addition
to it's strategic value the British have
heavy economic interests in the SUI
dan.
Macdonald Warns Egyptians.
While former Premier Zaghlul
Pasha was in London, great anti
British demonstrations took place in
Egypt. These took the form Of pro-
tests against British occupation of the
Sudan. It is also worth noticing in
view Of recent occurrences that Zagh-
lul visited the French foreign ONCE
on his way to London. Macdonald,
the socialist premier, not alone turned
down the Egyptian demands, but
warned zaghlul that the empire would
stand no nonsense from Egypt any
more than it would from India.
The four main questions that Mac
Donald wanted to discuss with the
Egyptian premier were, the Sudan,
which England wanted for the defense
of Egypt-for Britain; the interests
of foreigners in Egypt-foreigners
meaning British businessmen, and
control of the Suez canal.
Sudan Necessary to Egypt.
AS the Nile traverses the Sudan
before reaching Egypt control of the
Sudan by the British could turn the
fertile Egyptian valley of the Nile
into a desert. 1t can thus be seen that
the Sudan is of vital Importance to
Egypt.
The policy Of the nationalist party,
of which Zaghlul Pasha is leader, is
one Of trying to gain concessions from
England by means of diplomacy
rather than arousing the masses
against the invaders. Last March the
organ of the Kemalists, of Constan-
tinople, said: 1.-THE independence of
Egypt has not yet come to life. Egypt
must first free herself from her king.
Then drive the English into the sea.
She will not succeed by means Of
mere demonstrations. In order to
establish real independence it is
necessary that she learns how to shed
her blood and to die"
zaghluI Betrayed Workers.
The party Of zaghlul betrayed the
workers and peasants to the feudal
aristocracy and the landowners. His
government prosecuted the Commun-
lists, dissolved the trade unions and
arrested their leaders.
His policy of persecution Of the
revolutionary nationalists and Com
munists was SO provoking that he
lost the support of the workers and
intellectuals. The British rewarded
him for his perfidy by kicking him out
when he no longer served their pur-