British Political Ambitions 83 As for this council, another law was issued stipulating that the Financial Secretary, the Judicial Secretary, and the Royal Secretary, who are the legal members, shall be trustees. The Governor-General has the right to appoint additional members, not less than two and not more than five. If you search for Egyptians in this council and elsewhere, you will not find them, because the Egyptian is entrusted with service and is compelled to perform arduous tasks. He has no opinion and no will in those lands whose affairs the English have taken over, and they have spent their efforts to separate them from their mother, Egypt. Lord Curzon himself and his followers were pleased that Sudan in 1919 did not follow the same path as Egypt. When the Sudanese sent a delegation to England to pledge their allegiance to His Majesty the King, Lord Curzon forgot to ask them what new means they had employed to present the Sudanese in this manner, who this delegation was, how they were formed, and how they were sent to London. They were confined, so much so that they were not even allowed to stay a single day in Cairo or to mix with any Egyptians.

This is a speech by Lord Curzon delivered in the House of Lords in December 1919. He discussed the policy pursued by the British government in Egypt, and when he reached Sudan, he said: "I see no alternative but to point to the encouraging and contrasting picture to this picture (meaning the picture of Egypt), which is the picture of Sudan. The people of that land are still maintaining complete order under the good administration of Sir Steuart Symes, the Governor-General. They have provided clear proof of their loyalty to Great Britain by a visit of a delegation of their notables to this country last July. His Majesty the King received them, and they expressed to him, first and second, their high appreciation for the work that Great Britain has done to revive their country and protect them from the events that occurred in Egypt. They said that their only concern is to remain within the Empire and not be separated from it. This strong evidence of loyalty is due, in whole or in part, to the wonderful work accomplished by Sir Reginald Wingate and under the previous Governor-General, for he