Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [191r] (381/520)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 10 Jul 1921-27 Feb 1922. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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concluded with .cigypt. Lord Oiurzon had undertaken to do his bes
to carry out t.iis decision. He had carried on the negotiations
with kdly
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
which had failed. Then Lord Allenhy had
tried to obtain a treaty and had not succeeded. The reason
Lord Allenby
of this failure was the one j had given, namely, that Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had been afraid. The Prime Minister then recalled
that Sir William Eayter - an English official in Egypt, had
written a Liemorendum in which he stated that no Egyptian
Government would ever be willing to sign a Treaty conflicting
with the policy of the Egyptian Nationalists* This policy
really amounted to nothing less than complete independence,
such as was enjoyed by Boumania* Anyone who gave away that
policy would be regarded as a traitor and he himself had always
thought it would be impossible to obtain a treaty.
LCHL ALLENBY agreed.
THE PBIME MINISTER, 'Continuing, said that if no treaty
was possible what was to be done? He hoped he was wrong in
what he believed to be the fundamental difference between
Lord Allenby and the British Government and if he was wrong,
it,
he hoped Lord Allenby would say so. As he understocd/the
position was that the British Government did not intend to give
up Egyptf that is to say, tindrspecial interests in and control
of the British Government over that country. .
the Egyptian attitude and even the attitude of some of the news
papers in this country, they were not willing to give this up,
Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, he gathered, was a Turk and a person in whom the
Egyptian public had little confidence.
LOFD ALLENBY expressed doubts in regard to this.
THE PRIME MINISTER, continuing, said that in saying this,
he was only repeating a view wnich had been expressed to him
by British and Egyptian residents in Egypt. He was told
that Egyptian public opinion had not the same respect for
Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
as they had for Adly
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. Still, the choine
of individuals musb rest with the High Commissioner. The
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and other papers concerning the political situation in Egypt and negotiations between the British Government and an Egyptian delegation for the end of the British Protectorate in Egypt. The papers cover the effort to come to an agreement on future relations between the two parties following negotiations in the summer of 1921 and up until Britain's unilateral declaration of the end of the protectorate in February 1922.
The majority of the memoranda is written by Foreign Office officials, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Curzon. Records of meetings of the Cabinet and a sub-committee on the Egyptian situation, and of a few high-level gatherings at 10 Downing Street, make up a substantial part of the file. There is also a large amount of correspondence between Curzon and Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, High Commissioner of Egypt, on the question of Egyptian independence and events in Egypt. Other papers include printed collections relating to the Egyptian situation that were presented to Parliament.
At the back of the file is a chronological summary and a résumé of events in Egypt since the publication of the report of the Milner Mission to Egypt (folios 238-260).
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- 1 file (260 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 260; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-260; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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