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...Treaty of Alliance between Britain and Egypt (see cut). Some five months of expert drafting produced this pact and to get Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha in a frame of mind to sign it has been the triumph of British High Commissioner for Egypt Sir Miles Lampson. Many London papers called him "The Prince of Pacificators"-this accolade reputedly having been bestowed by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter, who received his knighthood for having been one of the co-makers of the Treaty of Locarno...
Asked Conservative Oliver Locker-Lampson, "Is this being done by leave of the British Government...
Many an Egyptian statesman has quailed before the British High Commissioner for Egypt, large and resolute Sir Miles Lampson, but last week the Cabinet of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who does not mind being called a "coward", sent Sir Miles from London to Cairo to capitulate in important respects to Egyptian Nationalism...
Britain was not feeling conciliatory. Publicly in the House of Commons last week Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson charged Italy not only with fomenting the anti-Jewish, anti-British rioting in Palestine, but with spreading anti-British propaganda in India...
...with Ethiopia was last week spotted by doctors as being an Anglicized Italian, Knight Commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Aldo Castellani, whose wife is English and whose only daughter two years ago married British High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson. Italy's No. 1 enemy in Ethiopia was disease and Sir Aldo is a world-famed specialist in tropical diseases. Most of his experience he acquired as a medical officer of the British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year in London, where...