A draft agreement about the future of Egypt has been
signed by Lord Milner and Zaghlul Pasha in London, and the latter has returned to Egypt apparently to consult his fellow Nation- alists. It is proposed that the Protectorate of Egypt, proclaimed in December, 1914, should be abolished ; that Great Britain should recognize the independence and full sovereign status of Egypt ; that the arrangement is to be embodied in a Treaty between the two Governments ; that Egypt is to control her own foreign relations, and to send diplomatic representatives to other countries and be elegible for the League of Nations ; that the army of occupation is to be withdrawn within an agreed period ; that a small British force is to be allowed to guard the Shea Canal ; that British members of the Egyptian Civil Service who do not pass into the service of the Egyptian Government shall be withdrawn ; and that detailed arrangements with regard to the Capitulations, the Egyptian debt, and the Sudan are to be worked out later. It is also stated that Great Britain will reserve the right of re-entry into Egypt in an emergency. The whole plan, with the right of re-entry, resembles the present relations 'between Cuba and the United States.
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