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'Egypt: The Soudan' [‎8v] (16/36)

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The record is made up of 1 file (16 folios). It was created in 17 Jan 1923-14 Feb 1924. It was written in English and French. 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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perpetuation of au autocratic system which is far from commending itself to die views
of that Government. . .
His Britannic Majesty’s Government hope to see the questions which remain to
be discussed between Great Britain and Egypt resolved by negotiation between t ie two
countries, and consequently cannot bui desire to see a constitutional regime set up in
order that these negotiations may be undertaken with the authorised representatives o
the Egyptian people. _ . ^
Bv adhering to the course he has in contemplation His Majesty the King 01 itgypt
will forfeit the amity of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, who have for some time
past reviewed with disquietude His Majesty’s sustained efforts to an ogate to imse
autocratic power, and, bearing in mind the evils of the personal regime w mch nougit
about their intervention in Egypt in 1882, they wdll henceforth closely scrutinise His
Majesty's personal acts.
Annex No. 2 to Enclosure 1.
AS certain clauses relating to the status of the Soudan, the insertion of which in
the Egyptian Constitution had been under consideration, were held by His Britannic
Majesty’s Government to contain implications not reconcilable with the Agreement of
the 19th January, 1899, or with the terms of the Declaration of the 28th hebruaiy,
1922, and inasmuch as the adoption of these clauses tended to modify the status
quo and to anticipate future negotiations, His Britannic Majesty s Government
directed his Excellency the High Commissioner to make representations to this effect to
His Majesty the King. *
In discharging this mission his Excellency the High Commissioner further
expressed to His Majesty on behalf of His Britannic Majesty s Government the hope
that the promulgation of a Constitution, in the expectation of which the protectorafe
was abolished, would not be embarrassed by controversy.
His Excellency the High Commissioner added that, in vDw of the fact that the
protectorate had been abolished more particularly in order to give satisfaction to the
aspirations of the Egyptian people, it was evident that His Britannic Majesty s
Government could not view with favour a continued delay in the grant of the promised
constitutional liberties. It being the hope of the Butish Government that the matters
still in issue may be resolved by negotiations between Great Britain and Egypt, that
Government cannot but desire to see a constitutional regime established in hgypt, in
order that these negotiations may be undertaken with the authorised representatives of
the Egyptian people.
His Excellency the High Commissioner at the same time gave His Majesty a full
assurance that His Britannic Majesty’s Government had no desire to call in question
the rights of Egypt in the Soudan or her rights to the waters of the Nile.
His Majesty the King, in reply, has authorised his Excellency the High
Commissioner to transmit a communication to His Britannic Majesty’s Government, in
which His Majesty states that, having taken the representations and assurances of the
British Government into most serious consideration, and being no less desirous than
is the British Government that the establishment of constitutional institutions in
Egypt should be accomplished without controversy or delay, His Majesty acquiesces
in the views of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1.
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby to King Fuad.
(Personal.) February 2, 1923.
I AM authorised by His Britannic Majesty’s Government on this occasion to lay
particular stress on the anxiety which has been caused to them by your Majesty's
tendency to assume autocratic powers in Egypt.
It was the evils produced by unchecked autocracy which led to the intervention of
Europe in Egyptian affairs and ultimately to the British occupation of Egypt. If after
many years His Britannic Majesty’s Government thought themselves justified in
granting independence to the country of which they had given the thrime to your

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The file contains printed copies of correspondence, memoranda, and a periodical concerning Egypt and the Sudan (often written as Soudan). The papers relate to the negotiations between Britain and Egypt over the status of Sudan following the end of the British Protectorate in Egypt. They include memoranda by Foreign Office officials, correspondence between Field Marshall Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (the High Commissioner in Cairo), and Lord Curzon, and copies of The Near East which feature articles on Egypt and Sudan (folios 15-17).

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1 file (16 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the back.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 18; 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 1-18; 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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