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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [‎58r] (115/520)

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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APPENDIX.
EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS.
NOTE on the Heply of the Egyptian Delegation to th* Proposals
of II is Majesty's Gore rumen t.
ADLY PASHA An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. oalled Upon me yesterday at the Poreign Office
in order to hand to mo the reply of the Egyptian delegation t?
the proposals of His Majesty's Government with regard to the
future of Egypt.
As I had warned the Cabinet, his reply, which was a typed
paper of several pages, was & categorical and uncompromising
refusal, which he accompanied by an expression of profound
regret that excent in the single particular of foreign repre
sentation fa concession which was materially qualified by the
conditions attached to it) His Majesty's Government had not,
as he alleged, advanced a single stem towards the acceptance
of the views which he and his colfcagues had spent so many
months in urging upon me at the Foreign Office ♦
I expressed my sincere regret that our discussions, which
had been conducted with so much good humour and good faith on
both sides, had not had a more successful termination, and I
was particularly sorry to read the words in the concluding
paragraph of the Egyptian reply, which seemed to me of a need
lessly unqualified description. But I did not attempt to
reargue the oaso, nor did I suggest that in any way it should
or could now be reopened.
There were two questions, however, of some importance on
which, I said, 13- was desirable to be clear, ’Vas I to regard
the reply handed to me by the Minister as the provisional
refusal of the delegation, subject to confirmation by the
Sultan and the Egyptian Ministry, when Ally Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had returned

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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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English and French in Latin script
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