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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [51r] (101/520)
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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He shared the-Tie^'expressed in the ^/ar Offtno rnoraorandwn
(C.P.3465) as regards the military situation. 1* diohure
anoes ooeurrod the existing trooes woul? be sufficient to
carry on only for a limited time. Ihey jodl . so^r. h^
immobilised by exherustion, as they would be required to be
on duty oontinuously to oroteet vital ooints, including the
Power Station outside Cairo. luring the U1J-20 disturb
ances the Egyptian r.r*ny had behaved well on the whole. All
the young officers in the Egyptian army are Jaghlulists.
He admitted that it might be possible to rarest Saghlul and
doport him from the cotmtry'without an explosion, but he
was not inclined to take action against him until he had
committed an offence which would justify his arrest. If
Zaghlul v/ere arrested now, adly would be suspected of having
caused his arrest, in order to justify hie in mating a bad
settlement with the British Government.
LOAD iLLEHBY thought it would be disastrous for him
to return to Egypt with the eublic announcement that negotia
tions with Adly had failed. Ee believe.1 that would have
the result of raising Zaghlul to the summit of power; Adly
would resign; there would be a renewal of the extremist
agitation, an* the nrestige of the British Government would
vanish. He regarded an immediate decision as to our future
policy in Egypt as essential. He thought that the decision
to grant a convention on the tor.es agree-, to by une Cabinet
on 11th July, 1921, (C.P.3453, Column A.) would cause general
disappointment in Egypt: but he believed that mdly could
carry on the Government in such circumstances if he was
assured that he had the firm support of K.li.Government• It
was unlikely that disturbances would occur of such character
as would call for the despatch of ^^ lior ' Cte '° [eiats ^ cr&onBlly /
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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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