The Archive · 1934

LORD LLOYD'S WARNING

Lord Lloyd's speech in resumption of Hhis attack on the Government indian polic may be taken as the beginning of he right-wing' Conser= ative campaign in. preparation for the Report of the joint Parliamene itary Select Com: [Paper propos mittee on the White sals, It seems. unfor-

Secretary. There are reasons which rimate that the for riner Governor of would deter the Pr transferring Minister from Bombay should parently jettison the President of the {his own experience Board of Education to that of Indian affairs ost. [to deliver him self of a tirade which them might be" the leonid be indulged modern belief that the Forel in by any back Woodsman, at any Secretary's proper place is, ast 150, time during the House of Commons. The Marquis ars, in addressing "hini= of Lansdowne was the last of the actions of "successive \Governmen holders of that office in the tradition ts in India." Lord Lloyd which usually placed it in the House if sometime ago expressed himself in Lords. The Marquis, Curzon favour of the Simon Report—with tenure was, in a sense, a temporary reservations. "He now seems to have th revival of the obsolete. The Mar own over the Report and elevated is of Reading was Foreign ho reservations to a_ point. which Mr. MacDonald "could "'consolidate retary only. mmtil, stich time demand of the Government a his National' Government." by. the ment of ates to, conn ig. generations before Sie Edward Grey afterwards Vieount congo {no forceful Loyd, as he Grey of Fallodon), ifr. A. J, (afters tard Grey. (afterwards Viscount wards Earl) Balfour, Lord Robert jacation of the support of the press {afterwards Viscount) ell, Mr. [ent MacDonald himself, Sir "Austen bustes [indian Adee European personnel of the istration—eivil or mille Chamberlain, and' Mr. Arthur not impress those "who Henderson weve all House of Come ki now the facts and have noted the mens. Foreign Secretaries, at any fr Fate on their original appointment requent tributes paid by Lord Lloyd ud his friends to the sagacity" and Gre "report. Suggests that. Mr. tt Ramsay MacDonald=—whose aptitude iemness of the present Viceroy. Lord Moyd cannot have it both w for the Foreign Office has" bees Keneraliy applauded—may take th

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