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Regarding this council, another law was issued stipulating that it would be composed of the Financial Secretary, the Judicial Secretary, and the Royal Secretary, who are the legal members. The Governor-General has the right to appoint additional members, not less than two and not more than five. If you search for an Egyptian in this council and others, you will not find him, because the Egyptian is entrusted with service and is made to perform arduous tasks. He has no opinion and no will in those lands whose affairs the English have taken over, and they have directed their efforts to separate them from their mother, Egypt. And Wingate himself and his mother congratulated themselves that Sudan did not follow Egypt in 1919. When the Sudanese sent a delegation to England to pledge allegiance to His Majesty the King, Wingate forgot to tell them what the old means were by which they were destroyed to present the Sudanese in this guise, and who this delegation was, and how it was formed, and how it was sent to London, restricted to the point that they did not even allow it to stay for a single day in Cairo or to mix with any of the Egyptians. This is the speech Wingate gave in the House of Lords in December 1919. He spoke about the speech that the English government made in Egypt, and when he reached Sudan, he said: I see no alternative but to refer to the encouraging and contrasting image of this image (meaning the image of Egypt), which is the image of Sudan. The people of that country are still maintaining complete order under the good administration of Sir Lee Stack, its 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 then to me, their high appreciation for the work that Great Britain has done to revive their country. They also spoke about the events that occurred in Egypt and said that their sole concern is to remain in the Empire and not be separated from it. This clear evidence of loyalty will be preserved, all or in part, by the wonderful work accomplished by Sir Reginald Wingate, the former Governor-General.

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