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File of printed papers marked 'Egyptian negotiation' between Curzon and Adly Pasha and the Egyptian delegation [81v] (162/178)
The record is made up of 1 file (87 folios). It was created in 13 Jul 1921-4 Jan 1923. 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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APPENDIX (B).
[E 10769/1/16 J (1.)
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenhy to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.—{Received
October 9.)
/'No. 799. Confidential.)
My Lord, Ramleh, September 30, 1922.
THE Sarwat Ministry has now spent seven months in office, and the most
important line of its constructive policy, the preparation of Constitutional Govern
ment, is approaching a critical climax. I propose, therefore, to make some attempt
to estimate the achievement of this Ministry, their present position and their
prospects. I shall confine myself in this despatch to matters of administration, and
devote a subsequent despatch to matters of politics.
The Ministry has been dominated throughout by the personalities of Sarwat and
Sidki Pashas; of the rest, Ibrahim Fathy
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
is no longer the man he was in
Lord Kitchener’s time, Gaafar Wali
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, an able, cultivated and honourable man,
has, through timidity and softness, become rather a disappointment to his friends,
and the remaining five, including Mustapha Maher
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, of whom something was
hoped, have certainly failed to pull their weight.
The result has been that Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, already sufficiently burdened with the
duties of Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, has found himself over-
occupied with the work of a variety of Departments, and has, I think, been unable to
give sufficient attention to his own other Ministry, the Interior, which is the keystone
of the Egyptian Administration. The Ministry of Finance has been ably guided by
Sidki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, whose remarkable quickness of intelligence has made him Sarwat’s
constant and very influential adviser.
It was intended that the declaration of Egyptian independence should give a
definite impetus to the Egyptianisation of Government Departments—an inten
tion which was taken up in the Ministerial programme—and it was foreseen
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The file contains correspondence, minutes, and memoranda relating to negotiations between the British and Egyptian governments over Egyptian independence. Most of the file consists of minutes of conferences that took place at the Foreign Office during July and August 1921. These conferences involved an Egyptian delegation, led by Sir Adly Yeghen [Yakan] Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , and the British, led by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord George Nathaniel Curzon. Matters covered in these meetings included: the termination of the British Protectorate, Britain's military presence, foreign relations, legislation, employment of foreign officials, financial and judicial control, Soudan [Sudan], the Suez Canal, communication rights, protection of minorities, retirement and compensation of British officials, and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Also contained within the file are minutes by Ronald Charles Lindsay and John Murray, both Foreign Office officials, and correspondence between Curzon, Lindsay, Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , and Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, High Commissioner for Egypt and Sudan. These papers all concern matters covered by the negotiations.
Documents of note include a copy of the Report of the Special Mission to Egypt, dated 9 December 1920 (folios 4-23), and a memorandum on the political situation in Egypt by John Murray, dated 4 January 1923 (folios 74-87).
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- 1 file (87 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in rough chronological order, from the front to the rear. On the inside front cover is a manuscript index with a numbered list of the file's contents.
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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 89; 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 2-87; 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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- File of printed papers marked 'Egyptian negotiation' between Curzon and Adly Pasha and the Egyptian delegation
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:24v, 27r:40v, 46r:53v, 55r:59v, 62r:62v, 64r, 65r, 66r:67v, 71r:85v, 88r:88v, back-i, back
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