Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers [‎96r] (193/473)

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THB LEAGUE
OP NATIONS*
MEETING AT
BRUSSELS.
INTER-ALLIED
AND MIGLO-
AI'AE RIGAN
DEBTS.
THE STATUS
CP EGYPT.
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(1) The Prime Minis ter on behalf of his colleagues,
congratulated and thanked Mr Balfour on the singularly
successful way in which he had represented British inter
ests at the recent meeting of the Council of the League
of Nations at Brussels, and more particularly in connection
with the question of the Court of International Justice.
(2) With reference to Cabinet 30 (20), Conclusion 2,
the Chancellor of tho Exchequer stated that the question
of Inter-Allied and Anglo-A, erican debts had now become
urgent, and he had asked that it might be placed on the
Agenda for that day. In view, however, of the urgency of
discussing the status of Egypt, he did not wish to pres?
the matter, provided that it could be discussed at a very
early date.
The Secretary was instructed to place
the question on the Agenda Paper of the
next meeting of the Cabinet, on Wednesday
next, November 3rd.
(3) Lord Milner made a full statement - to the Conference
in connection with the visit of his Special Mission to Egypt,
and proposed recommendations regarding th r future status of
that country. A summary of this statement, as well as of
explanations given in reply to certain questions, is given
in the Appendix .
There was general agreement that if any Treaty were
to be enacted, it should provide, inter alia, that m cases
nrhere non-Egyptians were required to act in an advisory
capacity as Government officials or officers, v;bother in
the Civil Administration or as Military Officers, they
should only be appointed with the consent o.-. uhe British
Government; this provision being subject to exception in
the case of csrtain posts already reserved for non-Egyptian
officials of nationalities other than British, as .'ell ..s
in the case of Syrians, for «hom special arrangements