Correspondence with A J Balfour, Sir R Wingate, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner and others on Egypt [‎116r] (231/300)

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them, indeed, are wholly unr«*aoriaMe represent an elnosrb
perverted point of view. Whet I shonld lilce to do would he
to send for Wingate, with whom I am personally on very friendly
terms, and say to him thrt for the idea that any reflection has
been cast, upon either his personal character or his official
reputation, there is not a vestige of foundation; and that
consequently there is nothing into which it is necessary to
enouire. I would go on to say that the Government recognise
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him as a valuable public servant, who has had a very distinguifhec
career and whose services they have acknowledged by the
appointments which he has received. It is true that the
Foreign Office did not see altogether eye to eye with him in the
procedure which he adopted in December last with regard to
Zaglon! and his friends, and that they disserted from the advice
which he tendered as to the reception of those gentlemen in
London; but that was a matter on vMch each party was entitled
to his own opinion; and to argue that, if a Government differed
from the advice offered to them even by a public servant of his
distinction, an injury was therefore inflicted upon himself
would be to take up a position which would render administration
impossible Ke night have been right and the Government might
have been wrong, or vice versa; hut to suggest that an enouiry
was
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