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Philip M. Tucker, the Boston banker who last fortnight started and then obediently stopped a chain-letter boom for the Coolidge renomination (TIME, Dec. 5), could not refrain from say- ing: "The response to the petition sent out by me was like the bursting of a dam which held back the expression of the people looking for some outlet to show their faith in Calvin Coolidge...
...British contention is that the dam, if built, would jeopardize the whole water supply of the Sudan and Egypt, the life blood of those regions; for the Blue Nile, whose confluence with the White Nile at Khartum forms the Nile, is the most important tributary of the main river...
...this irrigation system the Egyptians have seen a grave danger to their water supply, although the British have repeatedly proved that control of water in the drought seasons by no means meant a diminution of the supply. In the new dam project the Egyptians are therefore likely to see a further threat to their riparian agricultural interests...
Whether or not the British have a right to prevent the building of the dam, seems to be a moot point. The conclusion of the Italo-British Treaty, which divided Abyssinia into spheres of influence, has been hotly denounced by Ras Taffari at the League of Nations, of which Abyssinia is a member. Moreover, the Anglo-Abyssinian treaty has been called unilateral (benefiting only Britain) and therefore not valid, according to the League. If this is so, Ras Taffari would merely have to denounce it to make it null and void and Britain could prevent the building of the dam...
...last week with a J. G. White representative, who sailed for England to interview the British Foreign Office in the hope of securing its consent to the undertaking; for it is held by the U. S. corporation that the Sudan has more to gain than to lose by the dam's construction...