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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [115v] (230/520)
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 both parties. But this should be subject to a clear
understanding on the points to which due importance has been rightl/.
attached in your conversations with Egyptian statesmen, but which
should admit without difficulty of a more concrete definition.
No. 32.
The Marqucas Curzun of Kedleston to Field-Marshal 1 iscuunt
Allenby (Cairo).
(Extract.)
(Telegraphic.) Foreign Office, January 28, 1922. f *
HIS Majesty’s Government will be glad if you will come
home at once to acquaint them with your views. In the
meantime, as it seems desirable that no misapprehension should
exist as to the present position and policy of His Majesty’s Govern
ment, or as to the circumstances in which you are being invited
to come here to discuss it, we propose to issue here on Monday,
30th January, and shall be glad if you will issue simultaneously in
Egypt, a brief summary of the situation, the text of which is
contained in my immediately following telegram.
No. 33.
The Marques* Curzon of Kedleston to Field-Marshal 1 iscount
Allenby (Cairo).
(Telegraphic.) Foreiyn Office, January 28, 1922.
FOLLOWING is summary of situation for publication on
Monday, referred to in my immediately preceding telegram: —
“ The High Commissioner has been summoned to England to give
full information and advice to His Majesty s Government as to the
present situation in Egypt, and as to the communications that have
been passing between him and the Egyptian ex-Ministers, with
regard to the future Government of the country.
“ There appears to be an impression in some quarters that Great
Britain has abandoned, or is about to abandon, her liberal attitude
towards Egyptian aspirations, and that she desires to make use of
her special position in Egypt to maintain a political and adminis
trative system there incompatible with the freedom which she has
declared her willingness to recognise.
“ This is not the case. The policy of His Majesty ’s Government,
both during and since the Adly Mission to England, has been founded
upon the following principles:—
“ While unwilling to cede to disorder or violence what they are
prepared to grant on its own merits, His Majesty’s Government have
explicitly stated their readiness to invite Parliament to terminate
the protectorate, which was declared in 1914; to recognise the
existence of Egypt as a sovereign State and to agree to the
constitution of an Egyptian Parliament and the re-establishment of
an Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as soon as they are satisfied
as to the following conditions, Which they regard as vital to the
interests both of Egypt and the Empire.
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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.
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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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