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Lands Athwart the Nile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Derwent Whittlesey
Derwent Whittlesey
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Harvard University
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Over a period of many months, both before and since the abdication of King Farouk, responsible heads of government in Egypt have been voicing a claim to the entire Nile Basin, although practical measures to convert the claim into control have been pointed chiefly toward that part of the Basin included in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

It is the fashion nowadays, especially in the United States, to assume that river basins are coherent, nature-given units of the earth's surface, without questioning their fitness for unified political administration or sovereignty. According to that fashion, even the extreme Egyptian claim seems cogent. The Nile Basin is a drainage unit and clearly appears so on the map (Fig. 1)

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , January 1953 , pp. 214 - 241
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1953

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1 A proclamation of Egyptian sovereignty of the Sudan early in 1952 was moderated in November by a proposal that Britain and Egypt undertake measures looking toward Sudanese self-determination.

2 These designations need to be distinguished from Ethiopia, the official name of Abyssinia since World War II, and from Nuba, people who live in the Nuba Mountains, much farther south.