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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [182r] (363/520)
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 Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty s Government.]
EGYPT AND SOUDAN.
[February 10.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[E 1482/1/16] No. 1.
Field-Marshal Viscount AUenhy to the Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.—[lieceiced
February 10.)
(No. 81.)
My Ixircb Cairo, February 2. 1922.
IN anticipation of learning the result of the meeting of the-Cabinet announced
in your Lordship s telegram No. 31 of the 26th January, l postponed the sending of
a full reply to your telegram No. 26 of the 24th January. Your expected telegram
No. 32 of the 28th January has now arrived, and 1 propose to devote this despatch
to an answer to both telegrams as exhaustive as this critical moment demands.
2. From the contents of your telegram No. 32 in particular 1 am bound to
conclude that the communications which I have made to your Lordship since I
returned to Egypt last November, numerous and detailed as they have been, have
failed to convey to His Majesty’s Goveinment a sufficiently clear idea of the course
of political events here, or, indeed, of my own attitude in relation to these events
and to the Egyptian policy of His Majesty’s Government. I shall endeavour in
what follows to remedy this apparent failure, and if I am led bv the facts, as I
shall be, to traverse in many particulars the statements and implications of your
latest telegram, I must respectfully ask your Lordship's indulgence.
3. Upon the receipt of your telegram No. 26 of the 24th January, containing
what I was informed were the final instructions of His Majesty's Government, I
instructed Mr. Scott and Mr. Amos to convey these proposals to Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and
to beg him earnestly to consider every }X)ssibility of accepting them, at the same
time arranging for him to see me on the following day, the 26th January, when he
had had time to think the matter over. I also requested an audience of His Highness
the Sultan, in order that I might comply with the instructions contained in the
antepenultimate paragraph of your telegram.
4. In the meanwhile, however, I telegraphed to your Lordship asking that my
resignation might be tendered to His Majesty; this 1 did. and I hope I have made it
sufficiently clear, on the ground that His Majesty’s Government had rejected my
advice to pursue the course which alone, in my conviction, could lead to a solution of
the Egyptian question satisfying alike the interests of the Empire and the reason
able national aspirations of the Egyptians, and providing a foundation upon which
to build those relations of lasting friendship and alliance between Great Britain and
JLgypt which it is the desire of His Majesty’s Government to secure. The recom
mendations which I had made to His Majesty's Government were known to His
Highness the Sultan, and to certain ex-Ministers and other prominent Egyptians
who had agreed to take office if my recommendations were accepted, and after their
rejection I could not honourably continue in my present post.
5. Nevertheless, I proceeded loyally to carry out. pending my removal, the
instructions of His Majesty’s Government.
6. But before Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
visited me, and before my audience with the Sultan,
I received your Lordship’s telegram No. 31 of the 26th January, requesting me to
take no action upon your telegram No. 26. I therefore cancelled the preliminary
action 1 had taken with Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and before reading to His Highness a para
phrase of the contents of the latter telegram, I informed him that it was to be
regarded as null. Since, however, both the Sultan and Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
have had
cognisance of the contents of that telegram, I may acquaint your Lordship that, as
1 anticipated, neither did Sarwat
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
see any possibility of taking office himself,
nor did the Sultan see any likelihood of any Minisfry taking office, upon those
conditions.
7. If any omission or lack of clarity on my part has led His Majesty’s Govern
ment into the misconceptions, as in my respectful judgment they appear, upon which
your Lordship’s following telegram (No. 32) is based, I deeply regret it.
8. This telegram is mainly devoted to two contentions, as follows :—
(a.) That, being fully cognisant of the policy of His Majesty's Government,
said to have been formulated largely in consultation with myself. T suddenly advised,
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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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- 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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