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CONFIDENTIAL.
EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS.
The Marquess Curzon of Kedleston tjo Sir Adhj Yeghen Pasha.
(Private.)
My dear Pasha, Foreign Office, August 4, 1921.
I UNDERTOOK this afternoon to draw up a form of words, as expressing the
principle of the proposals as regards ♦troops in Egypt to which His Majesty’s
Government invite your consent (of course, the actual words will admit of alterations).
I have based them in the main on the Milner Report and have framed them in a
manner that will, I hope, not wound any of those susceptibilities of which you have,
been such a valiant defender.
I hope that you and your colleagues may he able to accept them as a basis for the
continuance of our meetings. In that case, I shall have great pleasure in instructing
Mr. Lindsay to confer with you on other aspects of the case during my absence at
Paris.
lam, &c.
CURZOX OF KEDLESTON.
Enclosure.
The main object for which Great Britain is called upon to maintain a military force
in Egypt is for the protection of her Imperial communications.
In addition she will require, as indicated in Lord Milner’s report, to assume the
obligation of supporting Egypt in defending the integrity of her territory and of
safeguarding foreign interests in Egypt, including the safety of the lives and property
of foreigners.
For the due discharge of these obligations it is proposed that British forces shall
have free passage through Egypt, and shall he maintained at such places in Egypt and
for such periods as may from time to time be determined. They shall also at all times
have facilities for the acquisition and use of barracks, exercise grounds, aerodromes and
naval yards, and for the free use of naval harbours.
It is realised that the numerical strength and the location of these forces are
matters which, as time passes, may admit of reconsideration, and accordingly it is
proposed that this article of the treaty shall he open to revision by mutual consent at
the end of ten years, when the question shall he re-examined in the light of the then
existing situation, regard being had to the ability of the Egyptian Government to
assume a fuller measure of responsibility for the execution of the objects to which
reference has been made.
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