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for educating and employing the Sudanese in self-
government.
What was pro forma an Anglo-Egyptian Government
of the Sudan had thus become de facto an Anglo-
Sudanese Government long before the ultimatum of
1924. It was certainly a mistake on our part to enforce
the evacuation of the Sudan by Egyptian troops and the
elimination of the Egyptian sleeping partnership as part
of the penalty for the murder of the Egyptian Sirdar
and Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Lee Stack.
There was no urgent necessity at the moment to make
the forms of Sudanese Government more representative
of the real facts. And if there were it would haye been
better to take advantage of the King and Zaglul having
ignored the Convention and insisted on sole sovereignty
to denounce it as thereby invalidated. Instead of that,
with a characteristic respect for the letter of a law which
had been disregarded by both parties in substance, the
last relics of the condominium were removed without any
breach of the Convention. The new Governor-General
was no longer Sirdar and a part of the Egyptian Govern-
ment, but he was duly appointed by decree of King Fuad
in accordance with Art. 3. The British and Egyptian
flags would still be flown side by side, as required by
Art. 2, if there were any occasion to do so. And though
the main link with Egypt, the garrison of Egyptian
regiments, was broken, yet there was no mention of
Egyptian troops in the Convention ; there was no breach
of that scrap of paper. There still survives the provision
for the formal notification of Sudanese laws required by
Art. 4, which no doubt is being duly observed by us.
But, as a matter of fact, there is to-day no Anglo-
Egyptian condominium in the Sudan, and Egypt is
entirely excluded from Sudanese affairs. lAny future