The Debates on Lord Lloyd We have written elsewhere about
what chiefly mattercll in the debates on Lord Lloyd's resignation. Here we may add a few reflections. It would have been better, we think, if in the House of Lords on Thursday, July 25th, Lord Salisbury had discouraged the idea of having a debate at all on the valid ground that the necessary material was not before the House. If that had been done, Lord Birkenhead would not have been tempted to resort to gossip nor to return again to his too easy and unedifying task of baiting Lord Parmoor. In the House of Commons on Friday, July 26th, Mr. Henderson, by general consent, made a very fair statement of the Government's case. He pointed out that there had been a divergence of opinion between Lord Lloyd and the late Government in every year since 1925—Zaghlul's Premiership, the retention of British officials, the. army crisis, the Assemblies Bill and the taxation of British subjects. On each occasion Sir Austen Chamberlain had been conciliatory and Lord Lloyd dictatorial.
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