But he has been maneuvered into a peculiar dilemma.

Lloyd George also lost the support of the influential Curzon, who considered that the Prime Minister had been manoeuvring behind his back.

Consider the French executive. The president and government ministers treat Europe as their political preserve.

The project was perceived rightly so as amounting to a surrender of sovereignty, because it introduced a rigid principle of non discrimination between foreign and local companies that would eliminate the host country s room for maneuver without offering anything in return.