Correspondence with A J Balfour, Sir R Wingate, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner and others on Egypt [‎88r] (175/300)

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No Gippy ever organised anything yet hy himself and never
will. " Incidentally the wealth the natives had reaped
during the last four years of unparalleled prosperity
provided funds enough for anything - had they all been
devoted to the cause and not the individuals.
Several people have asked why the Gippies chose this
moment of all others to make an exhibition of themselves,
and the answer is not far to seek.
They were all of them, to start with, firmly convinced
that we would be turned out of Egypt by the Turks in good
time, and without any effort on their part. Not a bad
idea from their point of view. Secondly, though they seem
to have accepted the fact that fighting stopped with the
Armistice, they were all firmly convinced that we had not
defeated the Turks at all, and were busy at Paris suing for
terms ; such being the way in which all their little
domestic quarrels are settled. (Also - tell it not in Gath -
their belief in our official veracity about Palestine
battles had been badly shaken by Sir A. Murray’s communique
about the first battle of Gaza).
They therefore argued that we had the strongest reasons
for not wishing the voice of the Egyptian Nation to be
heard at the Paris Conference. Incidentally they drank in
all Wilson’s doctrines about self-determination of small
nationalities. Fourthly, Allenby»s act of justice in letting
the Paslffe go to Paris was easily interpreted as an act
dictated by fear and terror, inspired by the damage and
destruction caused by the rioters in Cairo and elsewhere I
At the moment of writing the Pashas have not yet
returned, but Wilson’s utterance about the Protectorate
and Allenby’s firm hand has induced a more normal quietness
in the bulk of the population. The fellahin Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. won’t give
much more trouble as they have had a lesson, I don’t know
about the Upper Egypt lot though; but, and this is very
important ,-there is at present no guarantee that they may
not all rise again sometime when the law students or
Italians think they have got a grievance.
The fellahin Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. , as a matter of fact, had a bit of a
grievance. The Army demanded quantities of labour and
forage from the Gippy Government. The Interior put the
screw on the mudirs who put it on to the police officials,
who passed it on to the village omdehs and the last '-two
lots combined to use the usual forms of Oriental oppression
on the fellahin Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour. to make them deliver the goods, and all