PRECEDENT FOR EGYPT?
SIR,—A similar situation to that brought about by the decision of the Government regarding Egypt arose when Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, leader of the Liberal Government in 1906, decided to reverse Conservative policy and to restore to the Governments of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State complete control of their countries. That action of a Liberal Government was strongly condemned at the time by the Conservative Opposition, but today it is recognised as one of the wisest steps ever taken by Britain. Many years after it was so endorsed by Sir Austen Chamberlain and other leading Conservatives. Is there not i lesson here which Mr,, Churchill and his supporters might well note?—/' am Arc .
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