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Anyone who doubts this should have a confidential Scotch & soda before the hearth with Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, who was Governor of Bombay (a major Gandhi bailiwick) from 1918 through 1923, and was later famed in Egypt for the iron, ruthless hand with which he ruled that "Independent" kingdom as British High Commissioner (TIME...
Until the present British Labor Government came in, the High Commissioner of His Majesty George V in Cairo was literally the Mussolini of Egypt, ruthless, ironhanded Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Mr. MacDonald accepted and probably forced the resignation of Lord Lloyd. It was hoped that the Prime Minister's soothing proclamation soon afterward (TIME, Aug. 19) would reassure Egyptians and dispose them to wait until Britannia is ready to dole out their freedom, driblet by driblet. In asking for the whole bowl of porridge at once, last week, rash Prime Minister Nahas Pasha laid himself open...
...would not be happier than was Egypt's plump, glistening little King Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...
...rightful majority claim of its leader, Nahass Pasha, to be called to the Prime Ministry. Such a call would have come as a matter of course but for British dominance in Egypt. It finally came, last week, only after the British High Commissioner to Egypt, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, had convinced himself that force would be needed to impose another puppet Prime Minister upon Egypt and that for the moment force is inopportune...
...result is that British Might, made articulate by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, George Ambrose Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, is able to force the Wafd to tolerate as Prime Minister a statesman like Sarwat Pasha who is acceptable to Downing Street...