Evening star., 1947-07-13
Egypt Seeks 10 Break
Legal Sudan Treaty,
British 0fficiaIsSay
Rx the Assoeiafsd. Press

Egypt was attempting TO DreaK Q
legal treaty in a move to ensure
complete dominance over the Sudan
The officials disclosed this would
be the principal argument to the
Egyptian demand for United Ma
tions Security Council action to
force total and immediate" with
drawal of British forces from Egypt
and the Sudan.
These sources said Sir Alexander
Cadogan, Britain's chief delegate
was prepared to answer the Egyp-
tian complaint with counter-de-
mand that it be tossed out of the
Council on the grounds that 1t is
not justified.
The Egyptian complaint. which
grew out of failure to revise the
1886 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty which
expires in 1856, is not expected to
be taken up by the Security Coup-
Gil for at least one and possibly two
weeks because of heavy crush OF
work including the Balkan problem,
establishment of an international
police force, disarmament and con-
troll Of atomic energy.
Efforts at Discord Seen.
The Egyptian appeal filed yester-
day with the Security Council
charged that Britain had adopted a
policy designed to sever the Sudan
from Egypt, to discredit Egyptians
and create discord between them
and the Sudanese as well as dis
sension among the Sudanese and in
general to impair the unity Of the
Nile Valley"
British officials, in outlining re-
nuttal to the Egyptian demand, said
they would show that the real
point of issue" is Egypts wish to en-
sure future dominance over the Su-
dan.
They said the Egyptian govern
ment's attitude suggests that it be-
lieves that once the terms of a
treaty become inconvenient to one
of the parties it become invalid.
They said the London government
holds that the 1886 treaty was
freely entered into by Egypt and
Britain and was made to last for
a period of 20 years. The point that
it was made in anticipation OF the
possibility of the outbreak of war,
they added, does not affect the fact
that it was clearly intended to last
beyond the period of any immediate
war.
Negotiations Fail.
Britain and Egypt entered into
negotiations last year aimed at re-
vising the treaty. The negotiations
broke down over the question OF
the Sudans future status.
British officials said they would
show that the question of the re-
moval of British troops from Egypt
and the Sudan has already been
settled by free agreement between
the two governments.
The British claim that they have
withdrawn their wartime forces
from Egyptian cities-mainly Cairo
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to the 1896 treaty limit of 10000
troops and 400 pilots plus auxiliary
personnel to safeguard the Suez
Canal zone, which Is sovereign
Egyptian territory. t..
The British insist that IN negotia-
tions last year the treaty failed to
secure Egyptian approval only be-
cause the Egyptian government in
sisted that one phrase in the proto-
col on the Sudan should mean that
the Sudanese could never choose
to be independent of the Egyptian
crown. AZ .54- .,a4. +
r. The Sudan, q largely unexploited
area OF almost l 900 600 square miles,
Is held under "condominium"
Goint) rule and has flown the flags
Of Britain and Egypt since 1899.
British officials said that during
the negotiations last year the Lon
don government agreed to evacuate
all troops from Egypt and also
offered to leave the Sudanese sec
tion of the treaty to be negotiated
later.
Meanwhile, they said British
troops were evacuated from the Nile
Delta although they were under
no such obligation.