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communicated to the Egyptian delegates on the 10th November, and found by them
to be totally unacceptable. They replied to that effect in a reasoned note on the
loth November. In his final conversation with Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. on the 19th November,
Lord Curzon expressed the opinion that the Egyptian delegates had made a mistake,
when they realised that their extreme demands could not be conceded, in not agreeing
to give the British proposals a provisional trial, in the expectation of being able to
prove, by good administration, their title to more liberal terms later. The possibility
had been suggested to them on one or two occasions but they had not responded, with
the regrettable result that the whole position reverted to the status (juo ante.
8. Situation in Egypt During the Eegotiations.
18. It may be convenient at this stage, before dealing with the situation created
in Egypt by the failure of the London negotiations, to refer briefly to the course of
events in Egypt after the departure of Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and his colleagues for London
on the 1st July.
19. Sarwat Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Minister of the Interior, had been left in charge of the
Ministry. By dint of hard work and careful organisation, backed by the strong-
support of 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. , the Ministry succeeded in the course of the summer in
establishing itself in the saddle. The country as a whole was beginning to look to
the Ministry for a lead, and the position of Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the extremists was
proportionately weakened. The visit of four Labour Members of Parliament and
one Liberal member to Egypt in September, under the auspices and largely at the
expense of the Zaghlulist Party, embarrassed both the Administration in Egypt and
the negotiations in London. Their moral support encouraged Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to
reopen his campaign against the Egyptian Ministry, against the British Government,
against the negotiations in London, in fact against everything which appeared to
him to stand in the way of his inordinate ambition to play, not the leading, but the
sole part, on the stage. He planned a tour to embrace the principal towns in Lower
and Upper Egypt, at which the Members of Parliament should see for themselves
the populace acclaiming him as the only leader. His undoubted oratorical powers,
attuned to the necessary pitch and aided by various methods of persuasion, provided
the necessary setting, and the Members of Parliament, more than half convinced
before they arrived, were duly impressed by large crowds of vociferous but
uninstructed demonstrators. Precautions were taken by the Zaghlulist organisation
they that should see as little as possible of the other side of the picture, and it must
be admitted that they showed little inclination to profit by the opportunities afiorded
them of forming an unbiased judgment. The visits were not interfered! with by the
authorities except where a disturbance of the peace was anticipated. Meetings were
permitted at Alexandria, Cairo, Mansourah and Port Said, but that at Tanta was
prohibited under an order based on martial law. Supporters of the Ministry, who
pinned their hopes on a successful conclusion of the London negotiations, were with
difficulty restrained from forcibly opposing these obvious attempts to wreck them.
After the departure of the Members of Parliament on the 7th October, Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
proceeded to carry out the tour to Upper Egypt without them. At Assiout, the first
place visited, the rival factions came to blows, and the remainder of the tour was
prohibited. Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had perhaps acquired a temporary increase of popularity
among the masses, but his proceedings had evoked indignant protests from many
responsible bodies, and the fiasco in which they ended brought some ridicule upon
him. In this connection it is important to emphasise once more that the respective
programmes of Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. were essentially the same. If
Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. was sincere in his statement made in the course of the London
negotiations that nobody would greet Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. more warmly than himself, if he
returned victorious, why did he simultaneously do all he could to belittle and
embarrass Adly's efforts and sedulously spread the report that he contemplated
surrender? The answer seems to be in the statement made to the representative of
the “ Egyptian Gazette " by Zaghlul Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and quoted in section '2 of this chapter.
9. The Position in Cairo after the Failure of the Negotiations.
20. It was generally recognised that if Adly Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. failed in his mission his
resignation would inevitably follow, and it was necessary to take thought betimes
for finding a successor to him. The protectorate did not enable His Majesty's
representative, aided by the British advisers, to carry on the Government of the
country by means of a few hundred British officials scattered up and down the
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