FOREIGN POLICY.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2075, 16 March 1922, Page 5

FOREIGN POLICY.

NEW DIFFICULTIES MADE, ON ACCOUNT OF INDIAN ( DESPATCH. ; ERROR OF JUDGMENT. ' I [By Electric Cable—Copyright.) [Anal. and N.Z. Cable Association.i (Received Wednesday, 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. i In the House of Lords, Lord 1 Curzon said Mr Montagu's action had s graveiy unvoted tue position of the - British delegates ul me forthcoming I j Near East Conference at Baris. At u 1 Caumet meeting iienl bn March ath, he ’> suggested to Mr Montagu that the e publication of Lord Reading s deft snatch sauuld not be authorised with- ’ out reference to Cao.net and was t dumbfounded to learn that Mr Mon- ■ tagu had aiready authorised it. He r ' naturany thought it too late to inters veiie and subsequently ho wrote to Mr ~ Montagu privately protesting against f it. He regretted that Mr Montagu, instead of speaking in the Commons, had gone to ii is constituency and i traversed both their conversation and 7 the • speaker’s letter, in which after i ! deploring Mr Montagu’s action he said 1 that if he, when v iceroy, had ventured thus to refer to European s countries’ foreign policy he would n have been recalled. The letter went e , on to slate that Mr Chamberlain y | agreed it was intolerable that " a subordinate Government like that of India should seek to dictate the hues ’’ it thought Britain ought to follow as 3 regards Thrace and Smyrna.. J: Lord Crewe agreed that Mr Montagu iiad broken the Cabinet pro’o prieties, the effect of which, on Europe and India, was the most ims j porlant consideration. The opinions (j of the Government of India were well d known, therefore he thought publicae tion was not likely to altect the Near . East Conference. I PRINCIPLES AND PATRIOTS. it ci (Received Wednesday, S p.m.) h LONDON, March 14. it Captain W. Wedgwood Bean, in the 1- Commons, raised the Egyptian quese i tion. He said the Government had d i now conceded Zaghlul’s demands, but .rlwhat was it going to do about that yj patriot? irl Mr Chamberlain, replying, recalled I- Zaghlul’s record, which he declared e was a very bad one. He was a fold lower of Arabi Pasha and was an open sympathiser with Turkey during the war. He was the initiator of a violent campaign which terminated in disturbances in March, 1919. There was a sigh of relief when lie was deported and he would not be brought t- back while he was a danger to the K peace of Egypt.