Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

the NLT(Naual Aidel355 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 Guidelines, March 6, 1982 State Dept. DEB NLT, Date 7-26-85 May 21, 1952 By. TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMATION SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EGYPT Embassy London reports that Mr. Eden saw Egyptian Ambassador Amr yesterday morning. Although Embassy London did not immediately receive a detailed report of the conversation Embassy Cairo has transmitted the text of the Egyptian "reply" to the latest British pro- - posals to the Egyptians which Amr was to have handed Mr. Eden at their meeting yesterday. The reply is couched in restrained terms but it insists on recognition of Farouk as King of the Sudan. It makes the following points: 1) Unity of Egypt and the Sudan cannot be made dependent on recognition of the Kingts title since unity is the origin of the King's title and the Kingts present title has introduced nothing new in the situation; 2) the British alternative to unity is given in vague terms as "any other status for the Sudan", and this might imply some scheme different to the avowed aims of the Sudanese, both unionists and separatists; 3) British recognition of the Egyptian Kingts title during an interim period while the Sudanese are consulted is unacceptable because the British did not have the right to make unilateral pledges of self-government to the Sudanese; 4) It is contradictory to invite Egypt now to participate in the consultation of the Sudanese because the British have done their utmost to exclude Egypt from the Sudan ever since 1899 and consequently it would be impossible for the Sudanese to express their will freely under the present regime. Amr also handed Eden the texts of three formulas on the Sudan which would be acceptable to the Egyptian Government. These all speak of unity between Egypt and the Sudan under the Egyptian crown; the first states that the Sudanese "shall have the right to decide their future status" the second says that the joint policy will have for its essential objectives "'to assure the well -being of the Sudanese, the development of their interests and their active preparation for self-government and consequently the exercise of the right to choose the future status of the Sudan", and the third says that "the Sudanese shall have the right freely to decide their future status"1. TOP SECRET SECURITY INF ORMA TION