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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [78r] (155/520)
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 Dooumsnt m the Property o« Hie Britannie Majesty’s Governmet, and should be returned
te the Foreign Office If not required for offieiel uso ]
Decypher.
EGYPT
POLJnCAL
Lord A11ency. (Cairo).
December 11th, 1921.
D. 2.Q0.p*m. December 11th, 1921.
R. 3,30.p.m. December 11th, 1S21.
No. 664.
oOo
-QM* With regard to points enumerated in paragraph
4 of your telegram No. 529 I offer following observa
tions:
Point 1. Though this is first duty of any gov
ernment, and moderate Egyptian opinion is opposed to
violent methods, any ministry fonnod now on suggested
programme will be in a weak position and will have to
face a hostile country. Declared intention to keep
order will be of little use to them unless rest of
their programme is of a nature to induce country to
suppose that good order will be politically adva.n-
tageous.
Point. 2. Abolition of martial law was con
ditionally promised by me to Adly Pasha’s ministry
and promise has not been withdrawn. In existing con
ditions offer would not be likely to attract any
public interest.
As regards point 3, apart from difficulty of
holding elections with the country in it's present
temper a ministry which summoned assembly in conditions
now prevailing and likely to prevail under suggested
programme would be merely inviting either its own
downfall
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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).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (260 folios)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
- Physical characteristics
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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence