تقرير البعثة الخاصة إلى مصر بقيادة اللورد ميلنر، وأوراق ذات صلة [و‎‎٩‎٩] (٤٧٣/١٩٩)

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quite prepared to acquiesce in being governed by us, so long
as rot his rat^r and his crops vrero not interfered with,
and pro^id^d he ■''as not stirred up against us by the social
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superiors of his ovrn race, and especially by the roli??iour/
It might be ashed, in these circu.: stances, what was the cause
of the outbreaks which tc^k place in Egypt last year? These
wore, in his (Lord Miner’s) opinion, due to temporary causes.
Th -y-.nW'o la rgely' d o
to d things which went wrong in the government of the
country during the war, when narr, of the best administrators
were ta*en away; also to the hardships which had to be
endured in many cases, and to the requisitioning of/Tsbotr.
All this had.jcansed bad feeling. The point he wished to
emphasize, however, was that the Fellahin could be work-d up
against us by toir social superiors; and if we were to have
peace in Egypt and avoid having to maintain that peace by
martial lav/, it was not sufficient to have 90 per cent, of
ready, to •: equine in our pr-nt'nc' if l-'ft ulono ~
the people / it was essential to geb sov-.e the
remaining 11 p r -r cent. — that v/as, the educated and semi—*
educated classes — on to **»««**■' our side. This he consider
ed essential, for if we had some of the 10 por cent, on our
side they could make 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 British
-rile, and it had b^-n the greatest shock to him, when he
visit d Egypt, to nnd out what a change had taken place in
the country. The Nationalist movement had only begun about
15 years ago, and it had been growing ev r since. There was
loo, of course, the unrest caused by the .Var and it? inevit-
j.e results.
He was not, however, going to labon
this point, as it would bo dealt with fully in the i-mal
Report of his Coiailasion; but he did want to emphasize the
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