645W.74/12–852: Telegram
No. 1043
The Ambassador in Egypt (Caffery) to the
Department of State1
secret
Cairo, December 8, 1952—3
p.m.
1385. Brit Amb has appointment with Naguib Dec 9 to resume Sudan discussions.2
[Page 1906]Re London’s tel 3164, Dec 5,3 Brit EmbOff today pointed out that GovGen’s special responsibility towards south is only real stumbling block remaining. He remarked that Naguib himself appeared appreciate force of Brit position re south and Egypts are prepared to agree to GovGen’s special powers but insist that no public mention thereof be made.
Brit plan leave question of south until last, meanwhile tying up on other points still at issue.
Caffery
- Repeated to London as telegram 462, to Khartoum as telegram 29, and unnumbered to the Arab capitals, Paris, Rome, Moscow, and Ankara.↩
- In telegram 1403 from Cairo, Dec. 10, not printed, Ambassador Caffery reported that Stevenson and Naguib at their meeting on Dec. 9 had reached agreement on a number of points with the result that the British Embassy in Cairo had telegraphed the text of a proposed draft agreement based on the Egyptian note of Nov. 2 to London. (641.74/12–1052)↩
- Not printed.↩