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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [99v] (198/520)
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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between two peoples cannot be realised save on the condition that it
does not constitute for one of them a permanent pact of subjection.
The conciliatory spirit in which our discussions were conducted
entitled us to look forward to the result of the negotiations with
confidence. The draft which we have in our hands does not corre
spond with that expectation. In its present form it does not allow
us to retain the hope of arriving at an agreement which will give satis
faction to the national aspirations of Egypt.
London, November 15, 1921.
No. 3.
Communication from His Majesty’s High Commissioner for Egypt
and the Soudan to His Highness the Sultan of Egypt,
Decemuer 3, 1921.
Your Highness,
I have the honour, in accordance with instructions received from
His Majesty’s Government, to place before your Highness the
following statement of their views in connection with the negotiations
that have recently taken place with the delegation despatched by your
Highness under the
presidency
The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent.
of his Excellency Adly
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. His
Majesty’s Government have presented to Adly
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
the draft pro
posals for a treaty between the British Empire and Egypt which they
were prepared to recommend to His Majesty the King and to Parlia
ment, and have learnt with keen disappointment that these are not
acceptable to him. They regret it the more because they regarded
their proposals as liberal in character and far-reaching in effect, and
because t hey cannot hold out any prospect of reconsideration of the
principle on which they were framed. It is therefore proper that they
sKbuld acquaint your Highness fully with the main considerations by
which they were guided and with the spirit in which their proposals
were made.
One dominant fact has governed the association of Great Britain
and Egypt for forty years and must always govern it—namely, the
close coincidence between Great Britain’s interests in Egypt and the
interests of Egypt herself. The independence and the prosperity of
the Egyptian people are both of great importance to the British
Empire. Egypt lies upon the main line of communications between
Great Britain and the King’s dominions to the east. The whole
territory of Egypt is indeed essential to those communications, since
the fortunes of Egypt are inseparable from the security of the Suez
Canal Zone. The immunity of Egypt from the dominant influence of
any other Great Power is therefore of primary importance to India,
Australia, New Zealand and all His Majesty’s Eastern colonies and
dependencies; it affects the welfare and safety of nearly 350,000,000
of His Majesty’s subjects. The prosperity of Egypt is also important
to them, not merely because Great Britain and Egypt are each other’s
best customers, but because any serious danger to financial or com
mercial interests in Egypt invites the intervention of other Powers
and threatens her independence. These have been the governing
motives of British association with Egypt, and they are as powerful
now as in the past.
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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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