British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jul. 21, 1924

House of Commons. Premier MacDonald made a statement to the House upon the results of a visit which he recently made to Paris (see INTERNATIONAL).

¶ Referring to the furore which a Government statement in the House of Lords (TIME, July 7) caused in Egypt, Premier MacDonald said that Premier Saad Zaghlul Pasha of Egypt would meet him during August for a discussion of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the Sudan. He assured the House that the Government was firm in its resolution not to quit the country.

¶ House of Lords. Not much...

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