Interwar Anglo-Egyptian Relations

As is oft-mentioned by our British contingent, the Suez Crisis and ensuing war was the final nail in the coffin of the British Empire, as it used to be. I don't wish to speculate here about an enduring British Imperium, however enticing such a prospect might be.

Instead, I'm more curious if the Kingdom of Egypt and the UK could have forged a durable and closer relationship within the inter-war era that lasts.

There are a number of challenges there, such as disputes over Sudan (technically an Anglo-Egyptian co-dominium) and of course ownership of the Suez Canal. Appeasing Egyptian nationalist sentiment requires a bit more effort than that displayed in the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936, but need not be entirely out of reach.

What does it take then, to build an enduring Anglo-Egyptian alliance?
 

Thande

Donor
The problem is really that relations between Britain and the Kingdom of Egypt were very good, which meant the Egyptian people saw their country and king as puppets of Britain (not, entirely, without reason). That coupled to the defeat in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War triggered the coups which led to the military revolution of 1952, ultimately putting Nasser in power and leading to the Suez Crisis.

I don't know - maybe if the Kingdom had stood up for itself a bit more and Israel was destroyed in 1948? Even so, I think the revolution would only be delayed and perhaps changed in nature: it could be the Muslim Brotherhood pulling an Iran rather than the secular republican military dictatorships that appeared in the 1950s Arab revolutions.
 
I think it would have been more interesting - if the 'relationship' was good as the French apparently had in North Africa. So that the Egyptian Army was an active partisipant with the British Army against the Axis in WW2!
There were strong feelings in India for an independent country, but Indian troops served with distinction, why not Egyptian troops!?
 
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