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Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers [99r] (199/473)
The record is made up of 1 file (237 folios). It was created in 15 May 1920-14 Oct 1921. It was written in English. 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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quite prepared to acquiesce in being governed by us, so long
as rot his rat^r and his crops vrero not interfered with,
and pro^id^d he ■''as not stirred up against us by the social
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superiors of his ovrn race, and especially by the roli??iour/
It might be ashed, in these circu.: stances, what was the cause
of the outbreaks which tc^k place in Egypt last year? These
wore, in his (Lord Miner’s) opinion, due to temporary causes.
Th -y-.nW'o la rgely' d o
to d things which went wrong in the government of the
country during the war, when narr, of the best administrators
were ta*en away; also to the hardships which had to be
endured in many cases, and to the requisitioning of/Tsbotr.
All this had.jcansed bad feeling. The point he wished to
emphasize, however, was that the
Fellahin
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
could be work-d up
against us by toir social superiors; and if we were to have
peace in Egypt and avoid having to maintain that peace by
martial lav/, it was not sufficient to have 90 per cent, of
ready, to •: equine in our pr-nt'nc' if l-'ft ulono ~
the people / it was essential to geb sov-.e the
remaining 11 p r -r cent. — that v/as, the educated and semi—*
educated classes — on to **»««**■' our side. This he consider
ed essential, for if we had some of the 10 por cent, on our
side they could make opinion and we could afford to leave the
rest. In the years gone by wo always had some of the middle
and semi-educated classes who were favourable to British
-rile, and it had b^-n the greatest shock to him, when he
visit d Egypt, to nnd out what a change had taken place in
the country. The Nationalist movement had only begun about
15 years ago, and it had been growing ev r since. There was
loo, of course, the unrest caused by the .Var and it? inevit-
j.e results.
He was not, however, going to labon
this point, as it would bo dealt with fully in the i-mal
Report of his Coiailasion; but he did want to emphasize the
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The file contains official correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to political affairs in Egypt. The correspondents and authors are officials at the Foreign Office (Lord Curzon was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the time), War Office, Air Ministry, Admiralty, Colonial Office, Board of Trade, Board of Education, as well as those within the Egyptian civil service.
The file contains copies of reports of the Special Mission to Egypt (folios 1-7, 75-93, and 175-194), led by Lord Alfred Milner, whose purpose was to investigate and advise following the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. Much of the content of the file is in response to the findings and recommendations of the Mission and discusses the possibilities of a political settlement with Egypt.
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 235; 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. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 76a.
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- Title
- Report of the Special Mission to Egypt under Lord Milner, and related papers
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- front, front-i, 2r:39v, 42r:50v, 53r:76v, 76ar:76av, 77r:140v, 143r:143v, 144ar, 144r:235v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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