Coll 7/2 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms by Afghan Government from financial assistance granted by Government of India' [‎40r] (79/133)

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Governments should not debar tise. gift by the Government
of India to Afghanistan. They subsequently (compare
para. / above) decided in July 1930 to approve the
Government of India’s proposal for the grant of a similar
gift (to that of 10,000 rifles and 500 rounds of
ammunition eachTf already approved^if circumstances should
render this desirable. For practical purposes the
quantity of 10,000 rifles Gmm which the Afghans have now r
asked "Corresponds precisely in amount to the ’’similar
gift” approval to the making of which by the Government
of India if circumstances rendered this desirable.Was
given by the Cabinet last summer, and I submit, on the
principle that the greater includes the less, that it is
unnecessary to ask for further covering sanction either
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to the proposedr sal.e of 5,000 units to the Afghans -SSW4
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offer to sell corresponding quantity later. But if
this view is approved, the Secretary of State will no
doubt wish to circulate an explanatory memorandum to
the Cabinet. In a draft will be
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