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between both parties. But this should be subject to a clear
understanding on the points to which due importance has been rightl/.
attached in your conversations with Egyptian statesmen, but which
should admit without difficulty of a more concrete definition.
No. 32.
The Marqucas Curzun of Kedleston to Field-Marshal 1 iscuunt
Allenby (Cairo).
(Extract.)
(Telegraphic.) Foreign Office, January 28, 1922. f *
HIS Majesty’s Government will be glad if you will come
home at once to acquaint them with your views. In the
meantime, as it seems desirable that no misapprehension should
exist as to the present position and policy of His Majesty’s Govern
ment, or as to the circumstances in which you are being invited
to come here to discuss it, we propose to issue here on Monday,
30th January, and shall be glad if you will issue simultaneously in
Egypt, a brief summary of the situation, the text of which is
contained in my immediately following telegram.
No. 33.
The Marques* Curzon of Kedleston to Field-Marshal 1 iscount
Allenby (Cairo).
(Telegraphic.) Foreiyn Office, January 28, 1922.
FOLLOWING is summary of situation for publication on
Monday, referred to in my immediately preceding telegram: —
“ The High Commissioner has been summoned to England to give
full information and advice to His Majesty s Government as to the
present situation in Egypt, and as to the communications that have
been passing between him and the Egyptian ex-Ministers, with
regard to the future Government of the country.
“ There appears to be an impression in some quarters that Great
Britain has abandoned, or is about to abandon, her liberal attitude
towards Egyptian aspirations, and that she desires to make use of
her special position in Egypt to maintain a political and adminis
trative system there incompatible with the freedom which she has
declared her willingness to recognise.
“ This is not the case. The policy of His Majesty ’s Government,
both during and since the Adly Mission to England, has been founded
upon the following principles:—
“ While unwilling to cede to disorder or violence what they are
prepared to grant on its own merits, His Majesty’s Government have
explicitly stated their readiness to invite Parliament to terminate
the protectorate, which was declared in 1914; to recognise the
existence of Egypt as a sovereign State and to agree to the
constitution of an Egyptian Parliament and the re-establishment of
an Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as soon as they are satisfied
as to the following conditions, Which they regard as vital to the
interests both of Egypt and the Empire.