Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That this was no empty boast was apparent from the action taken by a meeting of 34 Liberal M. P's, a majority of whom indicated by their speeches that they would back Lloyd George against Lord Oxford and Asquith in the event of a formal Liberal split...
Lank taut-waisted fighters, urbane yet steely-eyed diplomats, suave but ruthless statesmen-these are the overlords that Britain sends to cow subject peoples. Such is George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner to Egypt-a so-called "independent state" whose King, Fuad I, reigns though he does not rule...
Last week Lord Lloyd gave a tea party. He is 46. He won his D. S. 0. at 38. Since then he has performed such bold acts as to order on his own responsibility while Governor of Bombay the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...
Zaghlul, no cringing foe of Britain, was reputed to have told Baron Lloyd over the teacups that if he assumed the premiership he would not respect the "four rights"* which Britain reserves to herself in Egypt. The Baron, dandified of mien, direct of tongue, appears to have replied that under the circumstances Zaghlul could not become Premier of Egypt. High tea was ne'er brewed higher...
Zaghlul spoke for 90 minutes. He might have conveyed his meaning in a sentence. The Wafd, he declared, must go outside its ranks to find a premier acceptable to Baron Lloyd. He, Zaghlul, proposed that they support former Premier Adli Pasha Yeghen, leader of the Liberal party, whom Lord Lloyd had consented to tolerate as Premier. The Cabinet of Ziwar Pasha thereupon resigned, and the Sultan summoned Adli Pasha to form a new government...