The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Memoranda on the Uganda Development Corporation Limited.

1:500,000 map of desert north of Gilf Kebir plateau. Printed on linen-backed paper. The western edge of the map charts Italian territory.
Annotated with route and features around the north edge of Gilf Kebir.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Admiral Sir Henry Jackson], on the defence of Alexandria [Egypt]. [Carbon].

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC on need to alter railway between Safaga and Nile Valley [Egypt] to metric gauge.

Telegram from WSC to Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham], congratulating him on preventing landing of enemy supplies east of Benghazi [Libya]; expressing concern about a plan for evacuation of French ships from Alexandria [Egypt]. [see further CHAR 20/37/129].

Telegram from Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham] to WSC commenting on Libya, Alexandria [Egypt] and the evacuation from Greece. [see CHAR 20/37/119-120 for WSC's telegram].

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to WSC enclosing: an essay: "Egypt or Greece?" advising transferral of troops from Egypt to Greece; beginning of a letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton to Josiah Wedgwood criticising official policy towards Egypt and Greece and comparing it with that of General Sir John Maxwell in 1915 [manuscript and copy]; with acknowledgement and a letter of thanks from WSC. [See CHAR 20/2B/129 for WSC's reply to essay and CHAR 20/8/125 for covering letter].

Telegram from Milne Cheetham [Counsellor of the British Embassy, Cairo, Egypt] to Admiralty, on the political and military situation in the country, annotated with a note between WSC and Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver, Chief of Staff, that HMS Swiftsure should hurry to Suez. [Carbon].

Telegram from WSC to the Commander-in-Chief, East Indies [Admiral Sir Richard Peirse], stating that it was necessary for him to proceed to Egypt to take charge of naval operations as soon as possible, and detailing the forces at his command. [Carbon].

Telegram from Admiralty to [Captain George Borrett], Senior Naval Officer of the Egyptian Station, with suggested precautions for the defence of the Suez Canal. Initialled by Vice-Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff], Admiral Sir Edmond Slade [former Commander-in-Chief, East Indies] and WSC. [Carbon].

Letter from James Phillpotts (Bella Vista, Tunbridge Wells, [Kent]) to WSC on the importance of propaganda in favour of British rule among the fellaheen in Egypt.

Detailed summary of his career by General Sir Reginald Wingate, with special emphasis on his service as Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army and Governor-General of the Sudan [Africa], compiled in support of his claim to a maximum pension. Sent with CHAR 2/118/1.

Extract from a letter from Mabrouk Fehmi [officer in the Egyptian Army] to General Sir Reginald Wingate arguing that Egypt is not yet ready for full independence, criticising the Swan Commission and attributing Egypt's troubles to Rushdi Adly and Saad Zaghlul. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/118/1.

Letter from Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (Newbuildings Place, Southwater, Sussex) to WSC urging the Government to get on good terms with Saad Zaghlul because he is the only one who could lead a pro-British government in Egypt. Blunt is writing this "virtually on my death bed".

Letter from Charles Townshend (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo) to WSC hoping he will "lead us in a new party against Bolshevism", describing the trouble which he believes would follow in Egypt and India if a Socialist government were installed, and referring to his withdrawal from the North Norfolk election due to laryngitis.

Letter from 1st Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] (The Residency, Cairo, [Egypt]) to WSC promising to support Colonel Bertram Romilly in his new job [as Chief Instructor at the Cairo Military School] and referring to the damage to the British position in Egypt which he now has to repair.

Telegram from Minister of State, Middle East [Oliver Lyttelton, later 1st Lord Chandos] to WSC: states that he has been having a "very sticky time" with the Egyptian political crisis and the need to restore the temporarily shaken confidence of the military; believes that there has been no major lapse in preparations for the battle.