LEVITY AND CYNICISM

Taranaki Daily News, 7 December 1929, Page 9

LEVITY AND CYNICISM

SELLING COUNTRY’S SOUL

GOVERNMENT INDICTED

SOUND POLICY SCRAPPED

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.40 p.m. London, Dec. 6. The former High Commissioner in Egypt, Lord Lloyd, at the Empire Union’s luncheon said. he was sent to Ejypt to guard certain vital interests and maintain the 1922 declaration in its entirety, with the result that disturbance and turbulence had been replaced by peace and growing friendliness.

Lord Lloyd protested against the cynicism and levity with which the present Government proposed to abandon vital strategic positions, sacrifice Britain’s position in great markets, which had been built up by Britishers’ ..courage and enterprise, and abandon helpless masses who always looked to Britain for protection and emancipa-

tion. “This same Government which carelessly throws away real and existing markets in the East,” he added, “is willing to sell our country’s soul in order to buy purely problematical Soviet trade in the West.”