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Seventh: the Occupier's response and the Milner mission

Seventh: the Occupier's response and the Milner mission

Point 7 of 12 — Lesson 7: The Popular Revolution of 1919, Building National Identity and the ConstitutionQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)

07 Seventh: the Occupier's response and the Milner mission

Modifying British policy

  • Britain realised it faced a popular revolution with no precedent since the occupation of September 1882, one that force could not settle.
  • It decided to:
    • release Saad Zaghloul and his companions and allow them to travel to Paris;
    • block the Wafd's road in Paris by obtaining recognition from the powers of the British Protectorate;
    • send the Milner mission to persuade Egyptians to accept the Protectorate.

The result of the Delegation's travel

  • The Peace Conference recognised the Protectorate, but Saad did not despair: he stayed in Paris addressing the parliaments of Europe.
  • He led the national movement inside Egypt through the Wafd's Central Committee, whose secretary-general was Abdel Rahman Fahmi.

Boycotting the Milner mission

  • Saad instructed a boycott of the mission, because negotiating with it would mean the people relinquishing the Wafd's agency.
  • Every class responded, even school pupils, and they demonstrated against the mission.

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