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Intervention in E"rt and the Sudan 1992-5.
Liberal attituAer.
The Government elected in 1880 on a platform opposed to
Dicrselian Foreign Policy, was to occupy Egypt and take
the first steps of an advance into the Sudan and Central
Africa. It wan true that Whig Foreign Policy in practice
owed more to Falmerstonian tactics than to Hidlothian
principles; and the Whig clamant in the Cabinet was
strong. Lord Granville was at the Foreign Office; Lord
Uartington was S1cretary for India and for War after
D. cenber 1882; Lord Kimberley wan Secretary for the
Colonies,
- ezchcnged for the India Office in D0cerrber
1882; Lord Northbrook was First Lord of the Admiralty,
he Radicals held only ni. nor postal " Chamberlain as
President of the Board of 't &dt, and Sir Charles Dilke
an President of the Local Government Board after 1882.
But even Gladstone and the Radicals were not prepared to
give up what they regarded as legitimate British interests
for the sake of moral principle,. Liberal principles
themselves could be double edged weapons, - the intervention
in Egypt was justifod as an attempt to establish
representative Government on the Liberal model,
The Egyptian problem developed from the informal
control of Egyptian finances ectabliuhod in the 1870'n, The
frequent loans =ado to the Khedive had necessitated a joint