Part One General Chapters 1 - Introduction My previous report covered a critical period in Egypt's political life. It was issued at a time when people still remembered the assassination of the late former Prime Minister, the humiliation, and the strong demonstrations against the British on the banks of the Nile and the Sudan, which reached the extreme of Shathba. The General Assembly rejected the Suez Canal project without real discussion. This happened without the British and Egyptians considering the situation calmly and deliberately. To make matters worse, a group of English newspapers arose, whose editors were misled into accepting the many false rumors and propaganda spread by a group of European and Egyptian residents whose intentions were not free from private aims and interests. I strongly condemned what I perceived to be the policy of the British government in recent years. In reality, what I thought was the true English policy in Egypt was a distorted imitation, bearing no resemblance to the truth. This supposed policy was defended on the grounds that it had benefited the English greatly. I called for drastic measures that were unjustified and even counterproductive, leading to constant friction between the English people and the Egyptians, whose interests they should be defending. Now, ten months have passed, during which public opinion has calmed down, making it possible to judge the situation that existed then with a calm and dispassionate mind. Therefore, we can now examine the meaning and implications of those events and the lessons that can be learned from them for the future.

English policy in Egypt is not limited to merely following the Egyptians and then good administration and justice, but also to training them so that they gradually participate more and more in the administration of their government and the management of their affairs. This has been said repeatedly until it has become tiresome. Successive English governments have agreed to this political campaign, which, in my opinion, is the policy accepted by the vast majority of the British nation. I also firmly believe that