EGYPTIAN POLICY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 203, 27 July 1929, Page 2

EGYPTIAN POLICY

“CHANGE OF PROCEDURE.’' STATEMENT IN HOUSE OF LORDS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (British Official Wireless). Received July 26, 2 p.m. RUGBY, July 25. Lord Salisbury raised in the House of Lords to-day the question of the resignation of Lord Lloyd, the High Commissioner in Egypt. Lord Salisbury expressed anxiety as to whether the continuity of the British foreign policy was going to be maintained as between this Government and that which preceded it. He desired to know what change Lord Lloyd’s resignation involved. Lord Parmoor referred to a statement he made when the Labour Party was in office in 1924. "I think I may say,” lie went on, “that we adhere to every statement I then made, and there is not the slightest doubt that in reference to what I may call international or foreign matters there will be no change in what Lord Salisbury calls the continuity of our policy m Egypt. Lord Reading asked if there was any change of policy with regard tv the internal affairs of Egypt. Lord Parmoor: “I do not say that there is a change of policy. There is. perhaps, in one case, but I would call it a change of procedure. The late Government had always desired that, with regard to the internal policy of Egypt, the country should be self-governing, and the present Government had the same desire. Lord Reading: Do I understand that there is no change in regard to the internal Government, except in regard to procedure ? . Lord Parmoor: That is so, and it may bo very important.