Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George who strategically controls the Liberal war chest?the Asquithians being relatively without campaign funds?countered at once last week by releasing a letter to Lord Oxford and Asquith in which he referred to the latter's "provocative" communication to himself, defended his own strike-time conduct as "for what I considered the good of my countrymen," and concluded by demanding: "If there has to be another schism in the Liberal party, one would like to know what it is about...
...Palace Cabinet" persistently refused to resign, despite the utter rout of its nominal supporters at the polls. Its real backers were more than hinted at in a widely credited rumor that Lord Lloyd had demanded, as British High Commissioner to Egypt, that if a Wafd cabinet should be formed special guarantees must be given Britain respecting Suez and the Sudan. A despatch positively asserted that he had also demanded the right to "approve" the members of any new cabinet which might be formed "in the interests of public safety...
Britons rebuked U. S. citizens who pointed at Lord Lloyd last week the finger of reproof, by recalling the tactics of President Roosevelt with respect to the Panama Canal, certainly of no more importance to the U. S. than are Suez and the Sudan to Britain...
...benevolent" British Protectorate over Egypt was terminated in 1922 and Egypt declared an "independent sovereign state." None the less Lord Lloyd functions as British High Commissioner to Egypt, and an unobtrusive but efficient British Army of Occupation "protects" such areas of vital interest to Britain as the Suez Canal...
Peace Report. The "peace commission" consisted entirely of Fundamentalists?including Dr. McAfee and Dr. Mark A. ("Lion of the Lord") Matthews of Seattle?but largely of tolerant Fundamentalists (i. e., Moderates...