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Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers [40v] (80/473)
The record is made up of 1 file (237 folios). It was created in 15 May 1920-14 Oct 1921. 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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dona so. No-one can accuse me of being anti
native, indeed in Ngypt I suffered under the
opposite imputation. 3ut to speak frankly the
proposals fill me with astonishment and sincere
misgivings which are not altogether allayed by
my great confidence in Lord Milner or my respect
for the local knowledge and Judgment of Maxwell
and Rodd or the sound sense of Hurst. I think we
are going altogether too fast, and that it will be
the Egyptians who will suffer. But 1 confess to
considerable bias on the subject. T ^/hen ones
Egyptian education has been in the Gromer-Borst-
Kitchener school, which inculcated our obligations
towards the
Fellaheen
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.
and our duty to improve their
lot, it is disconcerting to be told by Hurst, as.I
was, that whatever the Egyptians may do to each
other is no concern of ours and that we ought to
confine ourselves to the object for which we first
entered Egypt, viz. the protection of the foreign
bondholders!
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The file contains official correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to political affairs in Egypt. The correspondents and authors are officials at the Foreign Office (Lord Curzon was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the time), War Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, Colonial Office, Board of Trade, Board of Education, as well as those within the Egyptian civil service.
The file contains copies of reports of the Special Mission to Egypt (folios 1-7, 75-93, and 175-194), led by Lord Alfred Milner, whose purpose was to investigate and advise following the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Much of the content of the file is in response to the findings and recommendations of the Mission and discusses the possibilities of a political settlement with Egypt.
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- 1 file (237 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 235; 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. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 76a.
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- Mss Eur F112/260
- Title
- Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers
- Pages
- 40r:41v
- Author
- Graham, Sir William Ronald
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