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Coll 15/5 'EGYPT British community in Egypt: problems of post-war reconstruction' [‎18r] (35/68)

The record is made up of 1 file (32 folios). It was created in 13 Jun 1944-23 Apr 1945. It was written in English. 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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remaining in the hands of the Controllers of other independ
ent Welfare organisations should be paid eventually to the
Trustee Corporation to be administered by the Managing
Trustees in the same manner,,
Sec tion B,
Ge nera 1 position o f the Brit ish Comm unity after the var.
13. In spite of the assurances that have recently been
given in public announcements by the Prime Minister and other
members of the Government that the presence of foreigners in
Sgypt is welcomed and that there is no intention of taking any
action against them, it appears certain that the present
tendency towards extreme nationalism and xenophobia will be
maintained and aggravated after the special war conditions have
disappeared. The primary cause of this will be the unemployment
problem which is bound to be acute among the Egyptian town
population after the closing down of the British and American
military establishments which have provided employment on such a
large and lavish scale, /hereas many of these Egyptian civilian
employees are of the labouring class and may eventually be re
absorbed into agriculture, there v/ill remain a great number of
technical and semi-skilled employees who will remain in the
towns and crowd the labour market there. They will be thrown
into direct competition with the lower (and far the larger) class
of foreigners, including Maltese and British Cypriots, and it
seems inevitable that any Egyptian Government will be tempted
on political grounds to support them against foreign candidates
for whatever work may be available. There are signs too that
Egypt is seriously contemplating the encouragement of industrial
undertakings of a purely Egyptian character, such as is
already evident in the Banque i\ isr satellite companies.
The development of such a policy must react against the
security of existing foreign undertakings and even more
against the establishment of new foreign, including
British, enterprises in Egypt. In these circumstances
it is considered that it is essential to take stock of
the position of the British Community as it now stands,
and to suggest ways and means by which it can best be
safeguarded and improved in the future. This position,
apart from any special goodwill that may be held to exist
by reason of the Treaty of Alliance or the continued
presence - and past achievement of British officials in the
service oi Government, will be the same generally as
that of other foreigners who previously enjoyed Capitulatory
privileges, but this Report will confine itself to the case
of British subjects.
14. The post-war prospect must be considered in respect
of two periodsc. During the earlier of them, up to October
1949, the position of British subjects will still be safe
guarded by the provisions of the iv.ontreux Convention. Thus
they will still be justiciable' by the Mixed Courts: they
will still enjoy the guarantees against expulsion and refusal
of permission to re-enter, if they have the requisite
residential qualifications: they will still be able to refer
in matters of personal status to the Consular Court, unless it
is decided by HMG Her or His Majesty’s Government in London. at an earlier date to surrender this juris
diction: they will still enjoy, as a legal right under -article
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The file is mainly comprised of a letter (ff 8-13) from HM High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan (Miles Wedderburn Lampson, the Lord Killearn) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden), accompanying a report (ff 14-33) on issues facing the British community in Egypt during the phase of post-war reconstruction.

The report is divided into two sections:

  • Section A. Reestablishment of local servicemen and servicewomen
  • Section B. General position of the British community after the war

A further letter from HM High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs accompanies a memorandum by the Legal Counsellor for submission to the Middle East Demobilisation Advisory Committee.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (32 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 34; 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.

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