Andrew Swallow wrote:
Fred J. McCall wrote:
[snip]

:
:On the 28th of February 1922, Britain unilaterally declared the
termination
f the British Protectorate and declared Egypt an independent state. In
:1923, the first Constitution was promulgated and Sa'ad Zaghloul
formed the
:first representative government of Egypt.
:

Note the phrasing "British Protectorate". Just who were they
'protecting' it from?



The French and the Americans.

Andrew Swallow

One big difference between a protectorate and a colony was that
anyone born in a colony, including blacks, was automatically
granted full British Citizenship. People born in Egypt were still
Egyptians although things got fuzzy towards the end.

Andrew Swallow