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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [131r] (261/520)
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 DCGUMl'NT IB THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S G:'VFRNMT-NT)
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C A B I H E T.
THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.
Memorandum by the. Socrotar^ p£_^cajte_for_Foreign_Aff < &lr£.
I fuel some dilllenity in advising the Cabinet on the subject
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of Lord Allenby J a i'-ocont telegrams, for (1) my advice as to the form
of treaty to be offered to Adly Pacha and the reply to be sent to
the Sultan was not taken in November last and (2) the Cabinet pre
ferred to take a course which has been attended with the very con
sequences which I then unavailingly predicted. Lord Allenby correctly
informed the Cabinet on that occasion that he could command sufficient
military and naval strength to prevent a general rising and to get
rid of Zaghlul Pacha, should the latter present him with an opportunity.
But he was incorrect in assuring ua that he could find an
Egyptian Ministry willing to take office under the conditions laid
down in our official letter to the Sultan: and the forecasts which
I ventured to make as t o the breakdown of the administration, the
refusal of the Egyptians to co-operate with us, and the revival of a
general and in the long run dangerous form of discontent have been
amply realised. Further, although my colleagues assured me that our
decision would receive the unanimous support of all the more responsible
organs of the British Press •*- an assurance which I took leave to
mistrust — I have not found that, with the exception of the "Morning
Post" (non tali auxilio) any important journal has consistently backed
our policy, while several of the more influential organs that
ordinarily support the Government such as the "Daily Telegraph","Daily
Caroncle", "Observer", "Pall Mall Gazette", "Evening Standard" --
l act aside the Horthcliffe papers -- have openly doubted its wisdom.
There aid indeed occur a moment in December when Sarwat Pacha
appeared likely to form a Government on acceptable conditions, and
I lest no time in encouraging those proposals./
3014.
x C. P,
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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)
- 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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