478 THE NATIONALIST PARTY 



fearlessly, and uprightly. The attitude of the so-called 

 Egypt Nationalist Party in connection with this murder 

 has shown that they were neither desirous nor capable 

 of guaranteeing even that primary justice the failure to 

 supply which makes self-government not merely an 

 empty but a noxious farce. Such are the conditions ; 

 and where the effort made by your officials to help the 

 Egyptians towards self-government is taken advantage 

 of by them, not to make things better, not to help their 

 country, but to try to bring murderous chaos upon the 

 land, then it becomes the primary duty of whoever is 

 responsible for the Government in Egypt to establish 

 order, and to take whatever measures are necessary to 

 that end. 



It was with this primary object of establishing order 

 that you went into Egypt twenty-eight years ago ; and 

 the chief and ample justification for your presence in 

 Egypt was this absolute necessity of order being estab- 

 lished from without, coupled with your ability and 

 willingness to establish it. Now, either you have the 

 right to be in Egypt or you have not ; either it is or it 

 is not your duty to establish and keep order. If you 

 feel that you have not the right to be in Egypt, if you 

 do not wish to establish and to keep order there, why, 

 then, by all means get out of Egypt. If, as I hope, you 

 feel that your duty to civihzed mankind and your fealty 

 to your own great traditions alike bid you to stay, then 

 make the fact and the name agree, and show that you 

 are ready to meet in very deed the responsibility which 

 is yours. It is the thing, not the form, which is vital. 

 If the present forms of government in Egypt, established 

 by you in the hope that they would help the Egyptians 

 upward, merely serve to provoke and permit disorder, 

 then it is for you to alter the forms ; for if you stay 



