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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [45r] (89/520)
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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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Government.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Printed for the Cabinet.
October 1921.
I CIRCULATE to my colleagues the Egyptian papers for which they asked.
They consist of-
I. The declaration made, on the authority of the Cabinet, to the Egyptian
Government on the 22nd February, and read out in the House of
Commons on the 3rd March, 1921.
II. Drafts in three parallel columns of—
(a.) The principal clauses of a suggested convention as approved by the
Cabinet on the 11th July, 1921.
(6.) Modifications of the above as now suggested by me after meetings
with the Egyptian Delegation.
(c.) Conditions as demanded by the Egyptian Delegation.
(Initialled) C. of K.
I.
Question asked in House of Commons, March 3, 1921.
Egypt (Status).
Mr. Lawson asked the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether, in view of
the fact that the Egyptian people have made it clear to their delegates that they
will not be satisfied with less than the abolition of the British protectorate and of
the fact that the Milner Report does not exclude the possibility of this abolition,
His Majesty’s Government will be prepared to state their policy on this point.
Ayiswer.
Mr. Harmsworth .—His Majesty’s Government have addressed the following
invitation to the Sultan of Egypt:—
“ His Majesty’s Government, after a study of the proposals made by Lord
Milner, have arrived at the conclusion that the status of protectorate is not a
satisfactory relation in which Egypt should continue to stand to Great Britain.
While they have not reached final decisions with regard to Lord Milner’s
recommendations, they desire to confer regarding them with a delegation
nominated by your Highness, with a view, if possible, to substitute for the
protectorate a relationship which would, while securing the special interests of
Great Britain and enabling her to offer adequate guarantees to foreign Powers,
meet the legitimate aspirations of Egypt and the Egyptian people.”
551 [7172]
B
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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)
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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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- Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt
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- 2r:3v, 20r:20v, 45r:48v
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