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Typescript and printed cabinet papers and parliamentary papers on events in Egypt [255r] (509/520)
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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The/
necessary funds were provided by means of
a special cess on house property. But
by reason of the capitulations such a levy
could not be imposed on foreigners, except
under martial law, to v/hich expedient
recourse was had with the result that an
additional revenue of over £1,000,000 (one
million pounds) a year is provided. Were
martial law to be withdrawn tomorrow, not
only would this levy become impossible in
future, but the Egyptian government would
have to refund, with interest, the sums
collected in the past to pay for a very
necessary service.
Another instance in v/hich martial
law alone provided a solution of a very
pressing difficulty was in the case of
house rents, which at one time became so
greatly inflated that the poorer classes,
both Egyptian and foreign, were driven to
desperation. Egyptian legislation alone
£-
was pov/erless to help thflm so a law limit
ing the amount by which rents could be in
creased was enacted by the Commander-in-
Chief, and proved a real god-send to the
vast majority of the urban population.
With the premature withdrawal of martial
law all this would be undone ,and many
poor families would find themselves home
less and v/ithout the means to pay the ex
tortionate rents which would be demanded
for a lodging.
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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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence