مجموعة ١/١٥ "شؤون مصر: الوضع العام ١٩٣١؛ المعاهدة البريطانية المصرية، ١٩٣٦" [و‎‎١‎٧‎٣] (٤٩٣/٣٤٦)

present positions at Cairo, they vvould be maintained at ether
important strategic points as near e.s possible to Cairo,, jr.der
such an agreement, ho'..evcr, the British troops v/ould also
remain at the Canal and at/or in the neighbourhood of
Alexandria a
The precise dispositions under an agreement on these
lines must depend to some extent on the course of ohe
conversations (in which his Majesty's High Commissioner v.ill
have the assistance, as technical experts, of senior naval-
military and air officers): They cannot be forecast with
certainty in advance-
It is the intention of the Government of the Unites
Kingdom, in any Anglo-Egyptian treaty, to reserve to themselvjs
exclusively the responsibility for the security of the Suez
C anal«
As a make-weight in the discussions the Egyptian
• delegates will be reminded by Sir .ales Lampson that as a
result of a treaty Egypt will be anaoled to modernise and
increase the strength of her army.
From the beginnin • it will be made clear to the
Egyptian delegates by His majesty’s High Commissioner that any
proposal put forward depends for its validity on agreement being
reached on axl points, and that the Government of the united
Kingdom must retain a free hand in respect of agreed portions
or' any proposal if cn other portions there shoulu oe faii.u..^