Reports and papers of the Egyptian Administration Committee [‎37r] (73/108)

The subordinates of the new department
should bo Anglo-Egypt!an Officials,
chosen preferably fror. the Finance or
Interior. As for the rotation of
officials, he advocated the system of
inter-change new in vigour in the Govern
ment of India. Officials of some
standing would come from the Egyptian
or Meoopota, ian service to the Foreign
Office, returning after 3 or 4 years
and
service in London, thus ensuring for
the department new blood fresh ideas
and a wider horizon.
Sir Ronald Graham adhered to the
terns of his note, and declared empha
tically that any new organisation for
dealing with Egyptian affairs should
for the present take the ferr of a De
partment under the control of the
Foreign Office.. He re?, indea the C on-
nitteo of the close and intricate inter
dependence of Foreign, inter-national
and internal affairs in Egypt. He cited
the disproportionate number of foreign
subjects and interests in the country,
involving such external complications as
the relationships of the Tripoli Arabs
under Italian influence with the Arabs
under the Egyptian Governnent. Even the
five Ecddans Law had in the past assumed
and international aspect. The problems
of the Fejas, no less than those of
Mesopotamia would be largely diplomatic
in character. With regare to the ques
tion of a new department, this had al
ready engaged the' attention of the Foreign
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ana he ho cl proposed that the