The Archive · 1929

No Surprise in Egypt

Cairo, July 25.

Lord Lloyd's resignation as High Commissioner for Egypt, or his "dismissal" as it is termed here, 4hias created no surprise, the news-Papers being convinced that the Conservative Party, if it had remained in office, would have asked for his resignation, "AT Abram" sums up the motives: behind the action in the words "The British Government docs not wish High Commissioner who governs Egypt directly." The paper adds hat Egyptians have often had occasion to wonder whether Lord Lloyd was carrying out instructions or conducting his own "Lloydian" "policy.—Reuter, The "Guardian's" Information London, July 25.

{The Manchester "Guardian" in an poitorial to-day points out that,

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