A very serious misapprehension on his part: diplomatic offensive – Tyrrell

Lloyd told Henderson that, during his home leave in 1926, he had been instructed by the Cabinet ‘to secure an early reduction of the Egyptian army’,1 which – at some 30,000 men and consisting of Egyptian units of the three arms and Sudanese ‘shock’ troops under elitist British commanders – was always small in size. A decrease would enable the number of matching British troops in Egypt also to be cut, to economic advantage.