تقرير البعثة الخاصة إلى مصر بقيادة اللورد ميلنر، وأوراق ذات صلة [و‎‎٤‎٦] (٤٧٣/٩١)

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but their o«n immediate material intereeta, Jarxng uhese
last years they have shewn themselves to be rack-renters
and arch-profiteers. Thereby, however, hangs another
tale, as events in i^pt are inevitably o&rchirjg; towards an
acute agrari all crisis and a conflict between the lx gland-
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owner and the small man, the tenant and the labourer. The
movement at present lao&s leaders and may take some time to
materialise, but it will be serious when it comes.
shall be fortunate if we can escape responsibility in the
matter.
As Lord Curxon has pointed out, much depends on how
the new arrangement will be forked. In the West, princi-
plee are more important than personalities, tut 1 am not
sure that in the £&&i the converse is not the case. batters
seem to have been oo managed that the whole credit lor the
eitensive concessions now made to K^yptian national aspira
tions will go to daad Laghioul and his satellites, Adly
keeps discreetly in the backt/ound, and the duitan and the
elder statesmen, rsuchdi, dirri, k&slouia.and the prusent
trovemment in \ypt scarcely appear. Ihe first Adminis
tration of the Independent Egyptian State will be principally
composed of ^aghloulites. 1 know them all well, and regard
them with profound distrust. Laghloul himself is probably
the beat of tnem, but he is quite unscrupulous and,acting as
the Khedive's paid agent, he behaved very badly during the
last session of the Legislative Asse bly. k&nmoud, the
leader of the last delectation to K^ypt, is a plausible
fellow and, as an ex- ? udir, will have a claim to hi/^h office
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