New Britain herald., 1929-08-31
EGYPT OFFERS NEW
 '|RISH' QUESTION
Rid Of One Problem, Britain Is
 Confronted With Another

London. Aug. 31,-Lord Lloyd, who was known as one of England's s greatest and sternest colonial ad- ministrators. has suddenly leaped in to the limelight as the center of one of the stormiest debates in recent British parliamentary history.
 Incidentally, it is once more a striking proof of the fact that the vast British Empire always has "an Ireland" on it's hands - a country within the realm whose political conditions are So stormy, so rest less and so difficult to resolve that they keep the crew on the British ship of state awake day and night.
 The Irish question, which lasted for centuries. was no sooner settled by the creation of the self-govern- ing Irish Free State, than two big ger Irelands took the stage-India, with it's 300,000,0 people, and Egypt with it's 15,000.000.
 Fifty Years of Trouble
 Britain went into Egypt 50 years ago to protect the Suez Canal, whose main shares it owned. and ever since then Egypt has been a source of trouble. In the beginning Britain was in there to preserve the peace and was really the boss, although the country had Khe- dive and was nominally a suzerain of Turkey. When the World War broke out, the resigning Khedive, Abbas II, who was out of the coun- try, declared for England's enemy, Turkey. His brother. Hussein. was made Khedive by England and a protectorate was established by the British.
 When he died, the present Khe- dive. Faud his brother. came to the throne. But the Egyptians were dissatisfied, and largely up on the initiative of Lord -Allenby then High Commissioner in Egypt. a settlement was effected and Egypt was made practically an independ- ent country.
 Britain only made four reserva-
  guaranteed by British troops; de- fense of Egypt against foreign ng- gresson; protection of foreign in terests in Egypt; and guarantees of British interests in Soudan. A new constitution was adopted in 1923, providing among other things for a cabinet. responsible to an elected Parliament along the lines of the British one. Since then Egyptian history has been the story of one cabinet after another each of which fell because it came into conflict with British interests.
 And that is where Lord LloyI came in.
 Llyod had had meteoric career. A young man of wealth, he went through Eton and Cambridge and then travelled extensively in the Orient, learning Arabic and other Oriental tongues. In 1905 he was made an attache of the British em- bassy at Constantinople, and later he carried out various govern mental missions in the east, He returned to England and got into Parliament.
 When the war broke out he served with Warwickshire Yeo- marry ard then as intelligence of ficer in Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and the Hedjaz. In 1918 he was made governor of Bombay, where he ruled with q strong hand. Ht was kniGhtcd and in 1925 was Giver the responsible position of Higf Commissioner in Egypt and wa' raised to the peerage.
 When another Egyptian cabne fell last year the Khedive, on hi: advice. dissolved Parliament sus pended the constitution, and namet cabinet headed by Mahmouc Pasha. an Oxford graduate. Th' intense nationalists of Egypt, wh' comprise the majority of the peo i pie. denounced him as a dictate who was Lloyd's puppet.
 The khedive and Mahmoud wer both in England recently and Lore Lloyd bobbed up serenely also. Thel one afternoon a bombshell was ex | ploded in Parliament when in re sponse to question by an obscur