LORD LLOYD HITS OUT AT LABOUR POLICY IN EGYPT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18938, 7 December 1929, Page 1

LORD LLOYD HITS OUT AT LABOUR POLICY IN EGYPT.

GOVERNMENT WILLING TO SELL COUNTRY’S SOUL TO THE SOVIET. (United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyr igh t.) LONDON, December 6. Lord Lloyd, formerly High Commissioner in Egypt, was entertained at luncheon by the Empire Union. He had been sent to Egypt, he said, to guard certain vital interests, and maintain the 1922 Declaration in its entirety. The result had been that disturbance and turbulence had been replaced by peace and growing friendliness. The reserved points had been maintained without a shot being fired. He protested against the cynicism and levity with which the present Government proposed to abandon a vital strategic position. “ The Government,” Lord Lloyd said, “propose to sacrifice our position in the great markets which have been built up b> y British courage and enterprise, and to abandon the helpless masses who have- always looked to Britain for protection and emancipation. The same Government, which carelessly throws away real and existing markets in the East, is willing to sell our country’s soul in order to buy purely problematical Soviet trade in the West.”