Oral Answers to Questions — Egypt. – in the House of Commons at on 27 January 1930.
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of the inclusion in the new Egyptian Government of two men who were concerned in a political murder trial some years ago, he proposes to review the representations made by the British Foreign Office to the Egyptian Government with regard to their inclusion in a previous Government?
Mr. A. HENDERSON:
No, Sir. So far as I am aware, one member of the present Egyptian Cabinet was concerned in a political murder trial, and he was duly acquitted.
Is it not the ease that the right hon. Gentleman, in 1924, made representations regarding two men who are now members of the Egyptian Government?
Is it not perfectly clear that the people to whom I am now referring are the same people mentioned in the question?
Is it not a fact that a subsequent inquiry completely exonerated these two Egyptians?
Earl WINTERTON:
Is it not the case that what the right hon. Gentleman calls a political murder trial arose out of the foul murder of Sir Lee Stack four years ago? Why does he describe the murder of a distinguished Englishman as a political murder?
Earl WINTERTON:
Why does the right hon. Gentleman describe the murder of Sir Lee Stack as a political murder?