مجموعة ٢٨/٨٧ "بلاد فارس. السكك الحديدية. مقطع ميرجاوه-دوزداب من سكة حديد دوزداب؛ سكة حديد زاهدان؛ المواصلات البرية بين بلاد فارس وبلاد فارس الهندية." [و‎‎١‎٠] (٤٢/١٩)

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My dear Black ham.
You will have seen the telegrams from
Pakistan (No. 76) and India (No, X177)/to our
telegram of 11th January about access to
External Affairs Department records arising out of
Tehran's telegram No. 1012 of 29th December.
Z This is to invite you to tell Tehran^that
they may act /so far as we are concerned^ on the
basis of paragraph 2 of our telegram of 11th
January.
£. It so happens that in the course of a long
conversation the other day, I discussed with
Donald Jackson, just back from being Second
Secretary at our Embassy at Kabul, the question
of the machinery used there in disposing of files
formerly housed in the sole Embassy but now of
interest to all three Commonwealth Embassies, or te
any^t-vro of them. He told me that the British
Embassy had gone through all the files which might
be of interest to the Indians or the Pakistanis
or both, removed occasional pages where any were
found which were clearly unsuitable to be handed
on, and made them quite freely available to the
Indian or Pakistani Embassy. One whole batch of
files had in fact been sent over to the Pakistan
Embassy in the early days. When our people wanted
one, or when they were asked for one by the
Indians, they had no difficulty in recovering it
from the Pakistanis. The whole thing had worked
extremely well with no/ill-feeling in any quarter^
and a point had even been reached at which the
Pakistanis would let their next-door neighbours,