Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers [‎47r] (93/473)

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in the Interior. He lost his post ior torture witness*!
in a Police case at Doraanhur. Isroail v>idki # perhaps the
cleverest atari in j$typt, had lost all caste by being irepiica*
ted in a aeries ox scandals vsith women, tut has now no doubt
regained it. Hii»ed*el•Basel, a profligate spendthrift
and a 3enussi agent iuring the war, will lecome Dietator
of the Fsyeal. I ttuat that the now Govornrient will
contain «ome raore decent elemente; fdso that the position
of thooe H&tives who were otxr open and wholo-hoarted
partisans in the past, @uch as iirri Pacha and Jhoikh
Jemerdash, will be safeguarded. it is possible that they
Hedged in time.
le li«ve eparanteed the Throne to the present dultan,
and the succession to his son. I scarcely see how he. can
last. His position must have been totally undermined,
not oidy by Chiroi^ (gratuitous attacks, but by the course
of recent events and the way in which he has been i^orod.
He is fatuous, but c > ipanxtively honest, loyal and well-
moaning, and we have scarcely been r&ir to him. The
Nationalist leaders will almost certairdy quarrel with nia,
and he has no support in the ccwatry outside the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. .
They will vant Omar Tussum or the ex^Kiiedive, (who is, i
notice, already on the warpath), or Hemal*el-Din, tut 1 do
not think the last named of these will t>i* e trouble. ^e
shall have no easy task in maintaining Fuad I. on the
Throne. he was possible as a huler under our tutelage,
tut ie scarcely so ae the Sovereign of an independent State.
1 am in entire agreement with Lord OUrxon as regardi
the absolute necessity of excluding any European officer*
excepting *