تقرير البعثة الخاصة إلى مصر بقيادة اللورد ميلنر، وأوراق ذات صلة [و‎‎٥‎٩] (٤٧٣/١١٧)

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quite prepared to acquiesce in being governed by us, so long
as vot his rater and his crops were not interfered with,
and pro^id'-d he ras not stirred up against us by the social
superiors of his om race, and especially by the p^iobthood#
It might bo asked, in these circumstances, what was the cause
of the outbreaks which took plac-' in Egypt last year? These
w^re, in his (Lord Lilner’s) opir.ion, due to -temporary causes,
and the trouble was caused primarily by the riff-raff and
scallywags. He thought the feeling of unrest was partly
caused by things which went wrong in the government of the
country during the Var, when ran; of the best administrators
were ta&en away; also to the hardships which had to be
ondurod in uany cases, and to the requisitioning of labour.
All this hod caused bad feeling. Tne point he wished to
emphasize, however, was that the Fellahin could be worked up
against us by his social superiors: and if we were to have
peace in Egypt and avoid having to maintain that peace by
martial law, it was not sufficient to have 90 per cent, of
the people on our side: it was essential to get so-.e of the
remaining 10 p-r cent. - that was, the educated and semi-
educated classes - also to take our side. This he consider
ed essential, for if wo had some of the 10 per cent, on our
side they could rake 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
■nile, and it had been the great-st shock to him, whon I * r
visit d Egypt, to p ind out what a change had ta..cn place
, rpvp Moti onclist r overnent hnd onl; b«gun about
the, country. The pauion^j.j-ai,
15 ye or a ago, and it had been growing evr since.
also, of course, the unrest caused by the War and its inavit-
c v r-Vi r*Vt we would never ha^'e
able results. Things had been done which ■
dreamed o' doing before. Ee '• vris not ' h0Vf0 ' I '
this point, as it. would bo dealt with fuliry m
Report of his Coiarlssion; but he lid want