Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1941, The British Commonwealth; The Near East and Africa, Volume III

783.003/384

The American Legation in Egypt to the Egyptian Ministry for Foreign Affairs⁸⁰

No. 195

The Legation of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has the honor to refer to the Legation’s Note No. 16 dated April 19, 1941,⁸¹ and previous correspondence relative to the American educational, medical and charitable institutions in Egypt which were the subject of an exchange of letters between the Egyptian and American delegations at the Montreux Conference.

The information requested by the Royal Ministry with respect to the American institutions has now been compiled and is transmitted herewith.⁸¹ It will be observed that the material relates to ten establishments, namely:

• The American Mission in Egypt
• The American University at Cairo
• The Assemblies of God Mission School, Shubra
• The Assiut Orphanage
• The Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Epigraphic and Architectural Survey of the Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago
• The International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada
• The Joint Expedition of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
• The Peniel American Mission School, Port Said
• The Pentecost Faith Mission Orphanage at Alexandria and Schools in Girga Province.

There is attached a revised list of the American institutions in Egypt, superseding the list enclosed with the Legation’s note No. 870 of December 14, 1940.⁸³

The Legation of the United States of America avails itself of this opportunity to renew to the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs the assurances of its high consideration.

Cairo , November 13, 1941.

[Enclosure]

List of Institutions Referred to in the Letter of the President of the Egyptian Delegation to the President of the American Delegation At Montreux dated May 8, 1937

A. Educational (Total 49)

1. The Joint Expedition of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Harvard Camp, Pyramids P. O. Cairo (Archaeological).

2. The Epigraphic and Architectural Survey of the Oriental Institute, the University of Chicago, Luxor (Archaeological).

3. The Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Luxor (Archaeological).

4. The American University at Cairo.

5. The following 40 schools are maintained by the American Mission in Egypt:⁸⁴

• Secondary:
  • Assiut College for Boys
  • Assiut College for Girls (P. M. I.)
  • Ezbekia, Cairo, Boys
  • American College for Girls, Cairo
  • Tanta Girls College
  • Ezbekia, Cairo, Girls
• Sub-Secondary:
  • Luxor, Girls
  • Fayoum, Girls
  • Alexandria, Girls
  • Zagazig, Girls
• Primary:
  • Luxor, Boys
  • Beni Suef, Girls
  • Benha, Girls
  • Mansura, Girls
  • Alexandria, Boys
  • Minet El Gamh
  • Estanha
  • Mehella Kubra
  • Dessouk
  • Sombat
  • Birket Es Saba
  • Mit Yaish
  • Benha, Boys
  • Mansura, Boys
  • Karmuz, Alexandria, Girls
  • Sheblanga
  • Zagazig
  • Kafr Sheikh
  • Tamia
  • Simbellawein, Girls
• Sub-Primary:
  • Ashment
  • Abshawai
  • Zerbe
  • Luxor Village, Girls
  • Abbassia Orphanage, Cairo, Girls
  • Quesna, Girls
• Special Schools:
  • Alexandria Commercial
  • Experimental Village School, Edmu
  • Bible Women’s Training School, Tanta
  • Schutz School for Missionary Children, Alexandria (now temporarily at Assiut)

6. The following school is affiliated with the Apostolic Church of God in Egypt (Assemblies of God):

• American Primary School for Girls, 192 Sharia El Teraa El Bulakia, Cairo.

7. The following school is maintained by the Peniel American Mission:

• Primary School for Girls, Sharia Kitchener, Port Said.

8. The following three schools are maintained by the Pentecost Faith Mission:

• Sohag
• Girga
• Kom Budar

B. Medical (Total 3)

The following three medical institutions are maintained by the American Mission in Egypt:

• Assiut Hospital
• Tanta Hospital
• Husseineya Welfare Center, Cairo

C. Charitable (Total 8)

1. The following five charitable institutions are maintained by the American Mission in Egypt:

• Fowler Orphanage for Girls, Abbassia, Cairo
• Community Center, Benha
• Community Center, Beni Suef
• Community Center, Mansura
• Community Center, Tanta

2. The following charitable institution is affiliated with the Apostolic Church of God in Egypt (Assemblies of God):

• Assiut Orphanage, Assiut

3. The International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada (Corporate name: International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations), 60 Sharia Ibrahim Pasha, Cairo.

Note: The listing of the International Committee of Young Men’s Christian Associations of the United States and Canada relates only to the American Interest in the organization.

4. Pentecost Faith Mission Orphanage, Bulkeley, Ramleh, Alexandria.

D. Religious (Total 9)

1. The American Mission in Egypt, Ezbekia, Cairo.

2. Pentecost Faith Mission, Bulkeley, Ramleh, Alexandria.

3. Apostolic Church of God in Egypt (affiliated with “The Assemblies of God” in America, Headquarters at Springfield, Missouri), Villa Almaz, Assiut.

4. Egyptian Mission of the Arabic Union Mission of Seventh-Day Adventists, 16 Avenue de Koubbeh, Heliopolis.

5. The American Church, Ezbekia, Cairo.

6. Church of God Mission, 1 Naucratis Street, Camp de Cesar, Alexandria.

7. American Bible Society, Bible Lands Agency South, 62 Sharia Ibrahim Pasha, Cairo.

Note: This organization is jointly administered by the American Bible Society and the British & Foreign Bible Society and the listing relates only to the American joint interest in the organization.

8. American Mission Cemetery, Old Cairo.

9. Peniel American Mission, Sharia Kitchener, Port Said.

80. Copy transmitted to the Department by the Minister in Egypt in his airmail despatch No. 141, November 13; received November 27.
81. Not found in Department files.
81. Not found in Department files.
83. Enclosure to despatch No. 2282, December 21, 1940, from the Minister in Egypt, not printed.
84. In a note of December 15, 1941, the American Legation informed the Egyptian Ministry for Foreign Affairs that the Zagazig Sub-Secondary School for Girls and the Zagazig Primary School for Boys, listed below, were at that time being operated by the Egyptian General Mission, a British institution (783.003/385).