Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crisis in Egypt (TIME, Dec. 1 and below) focused attention on the holdings of other Powers on the northern shore of Africa...
...Firstly, its insistence upon the complete independence of Egypt and the Sudan which constitutes the same country, one and indivisible...
...going to pursue any aggressive foreign policy and any suggestion that what has happened in Egypt is merely a veiled attempt to destroy the independence which we gave to Egypt some time ago is founded either upon misunderstanding or else upon deliberate misrepresentation...
...ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...
Nationalists in other quarters may well take Egypt as an object lesson. The gentle hint has been given that the idealism endorsed at Versailles, like that of Alexander I at Vienna, must not be taken too literally. England's will...