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Correspondence with A J Balfour, Sir R Wingate, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner and others on Egypt [115v] (230/300)
The record is made up of 1 file (150 folios). It was created in 12 Dec 1918-13 Mar 1920. 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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2 .
not only sensitive mfi anpry, bnt who almost throatens
mischief; and, unless the case be rather delicately handled,
it is not unlikely that such mischief may arise.
^ —My o^r inclination* subject to your consent and
that of the Prime Minister* is to deal with the case as
follows* proceeding always upon the assumption* which I
gathered in Paris, that it is not desirable that Wingate
should go back as High Commissioner to Cairo. Upon that
I believe the^e is an absolute concensus of opinion* both
among those wto are acquainted v/ith the facts here and
those who are best qualified to speak in Egypt. At the
sane tine, we do not want to present this decision to
Wingate in a form that may be at all painful to a man
who has had a very distinguished career and is himself
quite unconscious at the present moment of having done
anything to merit ev^n the slightest animadversion from
the Government.
I an quite certain that it would be a mistake
to get involved in a written correspondence v/ith him on
all the issues raised in his letter. The majority of
them
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The file contains official and private 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 papers discuss the situation in Egypt following unrest by nationalists in 1919, including how to respond to the crisis, accounts of events on the ground, and plans to form a special mission to investigate the causes and propose solutions. Several pages of Curzon's manuscript notes are contained in the file.
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- 1 file (150 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 150, 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.
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- Mss Eur F112/259
- Title
- Correspondence with A J Balfour, Sir R Wingate, Lord Allenby, Lord Milner and others on Egypt
- Pages
- 59r:61v, 74r:75v, 83v, 115r:118v
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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