Coll 15/1 'Egypt Affairs: General Situation 1931; Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, 1936' [‎12r] (24/493)

to the provisions of article 10 below,
immediately come to his aid in the
capacity of an ally.
The aid of His Majesty the King
of Egypt in the event of war,
imminent menace of war or appre
hended international emergency will
consist in furnishing to His Majesty
The King and Emperor on Egyptian
territory, in accordance with the
Egyptian system of adminstration
and legislation, all the facilities and
assistance in his power, including
the use of his ports, aerodromes and
means of communication. It will
accordingly be for the Egyptian
Government to take all the adminis
trative and legislative measures,
including the establishment of
martial law and an effective censor
ship, necessary to render these
facilities and assistance effective.
To render Egyptian aid effective,
and to ensure that His Majesty’s
Government had the facilities neces
sary to.render their own aid effective,
His Majesty’s Government required
a British base in Egypt manned by
such British military formations
and personnel as were necessary to
provide the nucleus of a war estab
lishment and to ensure continuous
collaboration in training and the
provision of equipment. These
formations would necessarily in
clude fighter squadrons for defence
against long-range bombing.
Egypt’s acceptance of the foregoing
arrangements would constitute a
part of her contribution—the rest
being represented by the participa
tion of her own armed forces in the
defence of the Middle East. Differ
ently expressed in the light of
subsequent developments, objective
(b) covered (i) the maintenance of
adequate defensive arrangements on
Egyptian territory in peace-time
and (ii) the right of British forces
of all arms to return to Egypt to
reinforce the existing nucleus in war
or emergency. Under the 1936
treaty the presence of British forces
in the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt
had been provided for, up to a
strength of 10,000 troops and 400
Royal Air Force pilots, by article 8
and its annex.
(c) So far as the Sudan was concerned,
His Majesty’s Government’s view
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was that any revision of the 1936
arrangements should be postponed
until the Sudanese people had been
consulted and had made known their
wishes. His Majesty’s Government
regarded any prior discussion of the
question of Egyptian sovereignty
over the Sudan as academic when
viewed in the light of the rapid
growth of an indigenous Sudanese
nationalism and of modern inter
national doctrine as embodied in the
United Nations Charter.
5. Although His Majesty’s Govern
ment's reply to the Egyptian Note was
delivered on 26th January, nearly two
months were to elapse before serious dis
cussions were opened. In the first place,
after one extremely general conversation
with the King on the treaty issue. Lord
Killearn left Egypt on appointment as
British Commissioner for South East Asia.
Secondly, a serious outbreak of student
agitation took place early in February.
These manifestations were suppressed with
energy by Nokrashi Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. who thereby,
however, antagonised both his Master, who
seems to have shrunk from such severity,
and also the more extreme advocates of
“ evacuation.” Nokrashi was shortly after
wards dismissed, and replaced by the
veteran statesman Ismail Sidky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who
brought to his task a reputation for
extreme competence in negotiation and
action and a ruthlessness towards disorder
greater than that of Nokrashi. On the
other hand Sidky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. suffered from a
grave lack of solid parliamentary support.
And Sidky was, for the time being,
to belie his reputation as the terror
of the students. Further disorders
took place, and were excused (if indeed
they were not actually inspired) by the
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . A particularly serious outbreak
took place in Cairo on 21st February and
in Alexandria, where four British military
policemen were killed by the mob, on
4th March. It was out of the question for
negotiations to be opened by the new
Ambassador, Sir Ronald Campbell, until
at least tranquility had been restored, and
discussions could take place uninfluenced
by cruder Egyptian forms of political
pressure.
6. Sir Ronald Campbell arrived in
Egypt on 20th March. On 7th March the
Egyptian Government had appointed a
large treaty delegation composed of a
number of elder statesmen including four
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