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After the First World War, a new norm was set for the Imperial power in Egypt. In response to nationalist agitation, the Milner Mission in March 1920 declared it advisable to ‘restrict the direct exercise of British authority to the narrowest possible limits’.1
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Artemis Cooper, Cairo in the War, 1939–1945 ( London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989 ), p. 33.
See P. J. Vatikioitis, The History of Egypt from Muhammad Ali to Sadat (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2nd edn, 1980), p. 277 and ch. 15.
M. E. Yapp, The Near East Since the First World War ( London: Longman, 1991 ), pp. 52–3.
Peter Mansfield, A History of the Middle East (Penguin, 1992), pp. 188–91.
See also Barrie St Clair McBride, Farouk of Egypt ( London: Robert Hale, 1967 ), pp. 100–1.
Alaa al-Din Al-Hadidy, ‘Mustafa Al-Nahhas and political leadership’, in Charles Tripp (ed.), Contemporary Egypt: Through Egyptian Eyes ( London: Routledge, 1993 ), pp. 73–8.
Israel Gershoni, ‘The Muslim Brothers and the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936–39’, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 22, no. 3 (July 1986), pp. 369–73;
James Jankowski, ‘Egyptian Responses to the Palestine Problem in the Interwar Period’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 12, 1980, pp. 1–38.
Christopher Sykes, Crossroads to Israel 1917–1948 (Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press, 1973), pp. 177, 190.
See also C. A. MacDonald, ‘Radio Bari: Italian Wireless Propaganda in the Middle East and British Countermeasures, 1934–1938’, Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 13 (May 1977), pp. 195–207.
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Kolinsky, M. (1999). Political Uncertainties in Egypt during the Interwar Period. In: Britain’s War in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27636-3_3
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