"STRATFORD EVENING POST" MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929. LOUD LLOYD’S DESIGNATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 4

"STRATFORD EVENING POST" MONDAY, JULY 29, 1929. LOUD LLOYD’S DESIGNATION.

THE resignation of Lord Lloyd, High Commissioner of Egypt lias come as something in the nature of a drastic surprise, hut while the vigour and efficiency he displayed during his term of office make his retirement regrettable there is little reason to suppose it was attributable to undue pressure brought upon him by the Labour Government. There is no excuse for the exploitation of the event or for adopting the tone a'ssumed by Lord Salisbury in the House of Lords, at least before full information is available. As a writer in the Auckland “Star” says: It is now asserted in diplomatic circles that Lord Lloyd has made no secret of his lack of sympathy with the policy inaugurated in 1922 for the purpose of converting Egypt into a. sovereign and independent State. Hut it must be remembered that this policy was supported not only by the Labour Party, but by the Conservative Government. The “Times,”’ which is not likely to go out of its way to help Mr MacDonald, has staled that Lord Lloyd’s relations with the Foreign Office have been strained long before Sir A nsten Chamberlain retired, and Mr Henderson has merely taken up a responsibility which he inherited. Lord Parmour, replying to Lord Salisbury, assured the House of Lords that tho reservations arranged in 1922, and reasserted since, in refyard to control of the army, defence of the Sudan, and protection of the Sue 1 * Hanal are tcJ be maintained unaltered, and so long as Hri+nin’s Lmoerbd interests are thus safecupr'led there is no need to ash the Dominions thev aprsrove the action of Dn> n