مجموعة ٣٥/٧ "أفغانستان: بيع الشركة الإمبراطورية للصناعات الكيميائية وغيرها، ذخيرة إلى الحكومة الأفغانية" [و‎‎٥] (٢٨٧/٩)

FILE COPY
-GREAT- - •G€OR<jE' - -STRf ET
LONDON St. Michael’s Roaa,
BOUHR BMOUIH,
-StWtJ- Bants.
Replies to this communication should be
addressed to the Comptroller-General,
quoting
28986/40.
Your reference
COPY rENT L'Y AIR MAIL
at <( t
Bournemouth 7280.
Telephone : WfitteharH ■9049 —
Telegrams : Advantage, Pari, London
After 5.30 p.m.
Bournemouth 7284.
23ru December 1940.
rr-
ju
Would you refer to India Office communication of
the 7th October (P.Z.2626/40) about International Traders
of Karachi.
We have had a telegram from the company stating
that their business has ceased owing to import restrictions
on American radios and they therefore urgently require the
agency in India for British radios. They ask us to advise
manufacturers to send them details of their gooas.
This we should normally have done excepting that,
on looking through the "Who's Who in Afghanistan" sent
under form from the India Office on the 22nd October
(P.Z.5698/40), we did not like the Soviet connections of
Ahmed Shah. As the goods in question were radio supplies,
we thought it would be advisable to obtain Foreign Office
views on the degree of assistance which we could give. My
own view was that since, as I believe is the case, our radio
manufacturers have enough export orders, we might have
replied that we regretted that no manufacturers seemed to be
in a position to take up further agencies. If he had
approached them direct and they had asked us for information,
G.E.Crombie Esq.,
India Office,
Whitehall,
London, 3. W. 1.
1 KCd. NT. 1 pi
{ENCLOSURE /|^ e AIR MAIL LETTER
1 26 DEC 1940
No. - ? 11 jaw 1D41
litjOjA OFFIC
Ej FROM SECRETARY
INDIA OFP.Cc.