During a debate yesterday in the House of Bords, Lord Lloyd emphasized the necessity of keeping British forces in Egypt in order to protect the Suez Canal. He also pointed our the fear that Bolshevist ### might make Egypt as chaotic as China and Palestine, recently fields of was against law and order which had been used for ground to force racial animosities.
Discussing Lord Lloyd’s speech the Manchester Guardian points out the strategical importance of Palestine for the ### of the Suez Canal. saying that while Lloyd argues that in order to guard against an attack from the East it is necessary to retain a string base on the West side of the Canal, it has been realized. even in 1914 against the very weak Turkish attacks, that this was not sufficient, so that the Palestine campaign was undertaken largely as a defensive measure for the Canal. “Today.” says the “Guardian.” “Palestine is under our control and the road which the advancing enemy must take is blocked.”
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