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Reports and papers of the Egyptian Administration Committee [46r] (91/108)
The record is made up of 1 file (54 folios). It was created in 2 Sep 1917-20 Feb 1918. 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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It is no use trying to conceal the fact that v. r e are at V/ar with
Tuakey. V/e must hit at the Turk where ewer we find him. Our
policy, in Egypt at any rate and in the Kiddle East generally,
has keen to hack the Arab against the Turk, Certain I'cslcms
and (the Turks)have disappointed us and earned our punishment
through German machinations. We should go ahead pinning our
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not popular, except on religious grounds. The Turkish govern
ment in its oppression and cruelty is hated not only by the
Arab but by the Soudanese, who also it is said dislike the
Egyptians. It is only on religious grounds in India, where
they have never met him, and in Egypt among those classes which
are really Turkish that he finds friends, and the quarrel of
the Arabs themselves is rather with the Turkish Government than
with the Turks. Whatever the result of the Arab movement may
be, it has been a good War move, and the one thing that would
destroy our influence in the Eohammedan world for over would,
it seems to me, be now to swap horses. We have mo.de War on the
Turk; we must finish the War with the *Turk. We must not
desert the Arabs whom wc have organised against the Turk. The
Turk in his pan-Turanian movement has given us plenty of mater
ial for demonstrating how really opposed hir ambitions are to
Moslem ambitions. That movement must be used for all it is
worth for propaganda pur.- uses, both in Arabia and in India,
where the Indian Government has, I think, been regrettably slow
to conduct anti-Turkish propaganda. That slowness is an exampk
of what I mean when I talk of an endeavour to conceal the fact
that we are at War with Turkey. We must play the A rab a^d the
non-Turkish Mohammedan, and flatly confess cur hostility to
Turkey now; we cannot draw back. The late Khedive was always
intriguing, with considerable success, among the Arabs. Kis
efforts have been really used by us, but they were conducted
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The file contains copies of memoranda and reports relating to the government and administration of Egypt. Included are memoranda produced by the War Cabinet on the subject and minutes of four meetings held by the Egyptian Administration Committee during September and October 1917.
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- 1 file (54 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 54, 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.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-54; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F112/258
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- Reports and papers of the Egyptian Administration Committee
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- front, front-i, 2r:53v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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