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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [106r] (211/520)
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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7
No. 4.
Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby to the Marquess Curzon of
Kedleston.—(Received December 6.)
(Telegraphic.) Cairo, December 6, 1921.
AT the present moment L have no definite information as to the
possibility either of keeping the existing Ministry in power or of
5 forming a fresh one on the lines of the declaration lately made by
His Majesty's Government. Sultan, however, thinks that in the
event of Adly’s resignation, which appears likely, he will be able to
form a fresh Ministry without undue trouble.
i Taking it for granted that a Ministry can be formed which is
willing to base its policy upon the text of the paragraph in His
Majesty’s Government’s declaration which commences with the
words “ With regard to immediate present,” I consider the present
moment is a favourable one for His Majesty s Government to adopt
a strong line calculated to supply a constructive programme to those
Egyptians who are not unwilling to co-operate with us.
In the course of his last interview with your Lordship, Adly
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
asked why His Majesty’s Government did not on its own initiative
bring into operation the plan indicated in the draft treaty which was
rejected. Your answer did not seem to negative the possibility of
such a step, provided an Egyptian Ministry coidd be formed which
would be prepared to work with us. The recent declaration once
more lays down that the scheme contained in the draft convention
cannot be put into operation unless the Egyptian nation agrees
thereto and is prepared to work with us. Ihe last paragraph,
however, declares that His Majesty’s Government are ready to
consider any means of putting the scheme into operation whenever
Egyptian Government so wish. Luring the past twelve months I
have more than once given it as my opinion that no signed agreement
was practicable unless His Majesty s Government were prepared to
accord to Lgypt a higher degree of independence than they are
clearly disposed to grant, and that it would therefore eventually be
incumbent upon them to define their own policy and give effect to it.
The situation which 1 foresaw has come into existence, and it
behoves us to deal with it.
Is your Lordship prepared to give me discretionary power, if I
think the moment has arrived, to tell the Sultan that His Majesty s
Government are ready to bring into force, as circumstances demand,
the principal proposals contained in the scheme embodied in the
draft treaty, and to supply him with them as a programme either
for a new Ministry or for the existing one if it continues in office?
1 consider that the draft treaty definitely represents a policy
which fulfils all our requirements so far as Egypt is concerned.
This policy confers upon the people of Egypt a substantially greater
participation in the conduct of their internal affairs, but at the
same time ensures that our own vital interests are adequately safe-
*» guarded. A distinct benefit that would ensue, when it was put inta
operation, would be that it would place responsibility on native
Egyptians in respect of certain matters for which it is only rigid
that they should be made responsible. Nobody who realises the
developments which have recently taken place in Egyptian
administration can fail to appreciate the great handicap we are-
under, thanks to the existing system of dual responsibility whereby
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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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- Mss Eur F112/262
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- Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt
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- 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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