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...Egyptian Question; the Quarterly Review, London, 1883; Hon. Fred. C. Penfield, Contemporary Egypt; N. A. Review, July, 1895; Hon. Sir W. T. Marriott, The Situation in Egypt; The Fortnightly Review, April, 1895; Alfred Milner, England in Egypt; Quarterly Review, Art. XI.; J. Eliot Bowen, Conflict in Egypt, Pol. Science Quarterly I, 295 (June 1886); Contemp. Review, 67, 390 (March, 1895); Calvo-International...
...English intervention in Egypt was induced by purely selfish motives.- (a) England was jealous of growing power of Egypt over Constantinople and Turkey.- (1) Egypt under Mehemet Ali had become consolidated: J. E. Bowen in Pol. Sci. Quar. (June, 1886).- (2) Egypt had conquered Syria and Arabia. (3) Had broken loose from Turkey.- (4) Had received a hereditary sovereignty of her own from the Porte: Ibid.- (5) In these gains Egypt was favored by Russia.- (b) England insured to prevent construction of, and gain control over, the Suez Canal: Ibid.- (c) England wanted railroads through Egypt...
...control of Egypt's finances she owned a large part of Suez Canal, from which she derived a revenue to pay off the national debt: Ibid.- (b) The good of civilization did not demand it.- (1) Mehemet Ali had made travel safe and made Egypt a responsible nation: Pol. Sci. Quar. as above.- (2) Ismail, the successor of Mehemet Ali, had expended more than 46,000,000 pounds sterling upon public utilities: Ibid.- (3) Foreign nations were being consulted in regard to finances and the other matters of policy: Ibid.-(4) Foreign method and ways were being introduced: McCoan...
General references: Annals of the Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Social Science, Articles by Keasby, Miller and Johnson, February, 1896, pp. 1-48. Journal of Franklin Institute, vol. 134, pp. 1 and 109 (July and August, 1992); Rodrigues Panama Canal, 173-232; North Amer. Rev., vol. 156, p. 195 (Feb. 1893) vol. 132, p. 107 (Feb. 1881); Forum, vol. IX, 1 (March, 1891); XII, 714-728 (Feb. 1892); House Reports, 50 Cong., 2 Sess. III, No. No. 4167; Senate Reports, 51 Cong. 2 Sess., I, No. 1944, and 53 Cong., 2 Sess...
...Control of the canal by the United States would be inexpedient.- (a) It would involve a breach of the Clayton. Bulwer treaty: L. M. Keasby in Annals of the Am. Acad. of Pol. Science, Jan., 1896, p. 21.- (b) No rights of exclusive control have been conceded to the United States by Nicaragua: S. Webster in Harper's Mag., vol. 87, p. 608, (Sept., 1893).- (1) The treaty of 1867 gave only the right to build the canal.- (c) European powers would not permit exclusive control by the United States: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., '96).- (1) As is shown...