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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [187r] (373/520)
The record is made up of 1 file (260 folios). It was created in 10 Jul 1921-27 Feb 1922. 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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was his recollection of what had occurrod at the moating,
Aocarrdingly, ha had consulted tiio Cabinet Minutes, which con
tained a vary full auaanary of what had occurred, and this
entirely confirmed his own recollection. There had no doubt
been e.-epressed differences of opinion at this meeting, as at
most Conferences or Cabino t meetings, but at the ond thoro had
been a definite summing up by the prime Minister himself and
the conclusion of the Cabinet had boon recorded in plain
language* When ho read Lord AUQnby 1r 3 account of the same
mooting, he obtained the impression that there had boon a
great conflict of opinion arid no decision.
LORD CURZON ontored at this point.
THE PRIME MINISTER repeated, for tho benefit of Lord
Curzon, what lie hid already said to Lord Allenby. Ho then
as^ed Lord Allonby If he could summariso what was the
differonoo betweon him and the Cabinet.
LORD ALL EH BY said tnat the Cabinet appeared to think that
an Egyptian Covornmont might be formed which would bo prepared
to sign a Treaty which did not give fall independence to Egypt.
He himself said that this was impossible. His conviction
was that any concession or arrangement mast bo unilateral! Ho
Egyptian Ministry would sign a troaty making a bargain with the
British Covelnment for anything less than cornplote indopindenco.
Ho himself had promised Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to recommend that the
Protectorate over Egypt should be lifted, leaving for subse
quent discussion and eventual settlement certain subjects
relating to the British position in Egypt. He had pointsd
out to H.M,Government that t is was a most admirable
opportunity for achieving a settlement. When this opportunity
had not been seized, ho had felt thot there was no altornativo
but to resign, as the views he hold were perfectly well known
in Egypt. Tho point at issue, therefore, was that Lord Curzcn
thought it was possible to make a bargain with an E c yptian
Government and ho was convinced that it was not. Lord Allenby
then pointed out that Sarwat
pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
*s life v.ould not be. worth a
fortnights purchase if he
were to enter into a bargain
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and other papers concerning the political situation in Egypt and negotiations between the British Government and an Egyptian delegation for the end of the British Protectorate in Egypt. The papers cover the effort to come to an agreement on future relations between the two parties following negotiations in the summer of 1921 and up until Britain's unilateral declaration of the end of the protectorate in February 1922.
The majority of the memoranda is written by Foreign Office officials, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Curzon. Records of meetings of the Cabinet and a sub-committee on the Egyptian situation, and of a few high-level gatherings at 10 Downing Street, make up a substantial part of the file. There is also a large amount of correspondence between Curzon and Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, High Commissioner of Egypt, on the question of Egyptian independence and events in Egypt. Other papers include printed collections relating to the Egyptian situation that were presented to Parliament.
At the back of the file is a chronological summary and a résumé of events in Egypt since the publication of the report of the Milner Mission to Egypt (folios 238-260).
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- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 260; 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 1-260; 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 F112/262
- Title
- Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt
- Pages
- 1r:1v, 4r:5v, 8r:9v, 11r:19v, 23r:44v, 49r:260v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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