In a Note to King Fuad, Mahmud Pasha says that
a small group who had acquired control of the majority of the Wafd Party had given itself up to a partisan spirit which was very dangerous to the common interest. This group had pretended that it alone was defending the rights of the country ; and as it could sustain itself only by fostering division the result was complete disorganization in the services. He hopes that a three years' suspension of Parliament will " suffice " to restore order. In the meanwhile he proposes to revise the Electoral Law. He adds that he would have shrunk from asking for the dissolution of the two Chambers had he not been forced to do so by the need of " delivering the country " and of obtaining the means of negotiating for the independence of the country in such a manner that Egyptian aspirations may at last be realized.
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