Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The New Suez Canal: Considerations Addressed to the Committee of Shipowners Appointed at the Meeting Held on Thursday, May 10th, at the Cannon Street Hotel
The question of the Suez Canal is pregnant with issues so momentous, that no proposed solution can ever be accepted by Her Majesty's Government, which does not command the assent of the Nation. Any difficulties, engineering or financial, which may have to be sur mounted, are insignificant in comparison with those which a consideration of the political position discloses. It may be wise that the responsibility of the initiative should be left to private persons, but no Company, how ever constituted, can be strong enough to construct a second Canal through Egypt without the support of the Ministry and of Parliament, with whom the ultimate acceptance or rejection of any proposal which may be made must necessarily rest. Not even the shipowners and the Chambers of Commerce, acting in unison, will be able to enforce their views, unless those views are approved by the people of England.
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