John Morley: “It would have brought her within instant reach of a possible war with France, for which the sinister and interested…”

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.