On Wednesday, in the course of the rambling debate over
Supply, Mr. Chamberlain dealt with the subject of Cyprus. After pointing out that it was inevitable that France should benefit by the allocation of the Cyprus tribute to the service of the Turkish loan jointly guaranteed by us and France— France pays nothing, and we have to subsidise Cyprus to enable her to pay the tribute—he went on to express a strong hope that the island might be benefited by applying to it his policy of treating the Crown Colonies as estates to be judiciously developed by the use of Imperial money. What was wanted were good roads and irrigation, and he hoped to be able to discover some means of providing them which would help the Cypriots, and yet not injure the British taxpayer.