Historic Anglo-Egyptian treaty signed in London – archive, 27 August 1936

27 August 1936: Foreign secretary Anthony Eden remarked on Egypt placing her hand into that of a great and free England, thus opening a new era in relations

Fleet Street, Wednesday
Once again the Locarno Room at the Foreign Office to-day saw history made is the British and Egyptian representatives signed the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, which marks a new stage in the relations of the nations. The signatories entered the great room talking together, English and Egyptian, Mr Anthony Eden, Nahas Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, Mahmoud Pasha, Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon, Ismail Sidky Pasha, Makram Ebeid Pasha, Sir Miles Lampson, and others.

On sofas and chairs round the rooms were seated many well-known administrators and Foreign Office officials and wives and relatives of the Egyptian delegates. A group of red-hatted secretaries sat at the top of the room behind Mr Eden, who presided.