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Coll 15/1 'Egypt Affairs: General Situation 1931; Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, 1936' [41r] (82/493)
The record is made up of 1 file (246 folios). It was created in 15 May 1931-10 Dec 1947. 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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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
- 2 -
from Egypt should be completed, and the question of the Sudan.
As a result of the conversations which I had with Sidky
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
we were able to reach, on a personal basis and subject to the
approval of our respective constitutional organs, full
agreement on the texts of a treaty of mutual assistance, an
evacuation protocol, and a Sudan protocol. Sidky
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
undertook to recommend the texts to his Government and I
undertook, for my part, to recommend them to the Cabinet if
they were endorsed and put forward to me officially by Egypt.
Of the questions in dispute, by far the most difficult
was that of the Sudan. My own position in the matter was
that I had given a pledge in this House on March 26th last that
no change should be made in the status of the Sudan as a result
of treaty revision until the Sudanese had been consulted through
constitutional channels. After taking, however, the highest
legal advice, I felt that for the sake of an agreement which
would have been as much in the interests of the Sudanese as of
either of the other parties, I should be justified in alluding
in the Sudan Protocol to the existence of a symbolic dynastic
union between Egypt and the Sudan, provided always that no
change was introduced into the existing system of ad mini stratum
whereby the Sudan is administered by the Governor-General under
the powers conferred on him by the 1899 Agreements as confirmed
and interpreted by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1956; and
provided that no change took place in the arrangements under
which the defence of the Sudan is assured. The text agreed
upon by Sidky
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and myself on the above basis read as
follows:
"The policy which the High Contracting Parties under
take to follow in the Sudan within the framework of the unity
between the Sudan and Egypt under the common Crown of Egypt
will have for its essential objectives to assure the well
being of the Sudanese, the development of their interests
and/
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence and government printed papers. On the front of the file is written in red ink 'Secret Cupboard'.
The correspondence concerns the general situation in Egypt in the periods 1931-1937 and 1945-1947. Correspondence also discusses the issues relating to the negotiation and conclusion of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty 1936, including:
- negotiating points
- concessions
- capability of the Egyptian army
- location of British military facilities
- the significance of the Suez Canal as an 'artery of communication' for the British empire
The main correspondents include: the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia; the Minister of External Affairs, Union of South Africa; and HBM High Commissioner to Egypt and the Sudan (Sir Miles Lampson).
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (246 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 246; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2762
- Title
- Coll 15/1 'Egypt Affairs: General Situation 1931; Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, 1936'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:32v, 36v:77v, 79v:94v, 95v:157r, 158v:245v, 246v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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