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Coll 7/5 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms etc. from foreign sources: Germany' [205r] (409/1035)
The record is made up of 1 file (517 folios). It was created in 3 Jul 1931-24 Oct 1939. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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their own wives and children, may have with them not more than
thirty-five persons, and a Consul-General and Consuls, besides their
own wives and children, not more than twenty persons. If it
becomes necessary to employ in addition subjects of the Govern
ment of the country to which they are accredited, Ministers can
employ not more than ten persons and Consul-General and Consuls
not more than five persons.
*( 7 .) Ihe Ministers, Consul-General and Consuls of the two
High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to communicate freely
with their own Government and with other official representatives
of their Government in other countries by post, by telegraph and
by wireless telegraphy in cypher or en clair, and to receive and
despatch sealed bags by courier or post, subject to a limitation in
the case of Ministers of f> lb. per week, and in the case of a Consul-
General and Consuls of 4 lb. per week, which shall be exempt from
postal charges and examination, and the safe transmission of which
shall, in the case of bags sent by post, be guaranteed by the Postal
Departments of the two Governments.
(/c.) Each of the tw r o Governments shall exempt from the
payment of Customs or other duties all articles imported within its
boundaries in reasonable quantities for the personal use of the
Minister of the other Government or of his familv. provided that
a certificate is furnished by the Minister at the time of importation
that the articles are intended for such personal use.
Appendix.
h Letter from British Representative In
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
-i-Ala, the Afghan
Foreign Minister.
(After compliments.)
Wrm reference to the provisions contained in Article fi of the
treaty concluded between the Government of Afghanistan and the
British Government regarding the importation of arms and munitions
into Afghanistan through India. I have the honour to inform and
assure you that, although the British Government has in that article
reserved to itself the right exercised by every nation to stop the
transportation to a neighbouring country of arms and munitions, in
the event of its not being assured of the friendly intentions of that
country, the British Government has no desire to make trifling inci
dents an excuse for the stoppage of such arms and munitions. It
would only be in the event of the Government of Afghanistan showing
plainly by its attitude that it had determined on an unfriendly and
provocative course of policy towards Great Britain contrary to the
neighbourly treaty above mentioned that the latter State would
exercise the right of stoppage. There is every ground for hope that
such a contingency will never arise, in view of the friendly relations
which are expected to spring from the treaty which has'now been
concluded.
(Usual ending.)
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The file contains correspondence regarding the purchase of weapons and ammunition by the Afghan Government from Germany and other sources. It includes correspondence between Afghan Officials -- the Foreign Minister, the Legations to Paris and London, and the Consulate of Afghanistan in India -- and British Officials, including the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department, HM Minister Kabul (Richard Maconachie), the Foreign Office, the War Office, and HM Ambassador to Berlin (Neville Henderson).
The file opens with correspondence regarding the alleged purchase in 1931 of arms from Germany, in violation of Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles. It is determined that the arms in question originated in Poland, with funding from the German Government. Later correspondence documents the British decision not to protest against such treaty violations, in light of the obligation on Britain to not interfere with the supply of arms to Afghanistan as agreed in the Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1921).
Arrangements for the purchase, licensing and transport of arms to Afghanistan from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Japan, Spain, the USA, France and Belgium are documented in the file. The principal firms involved in these arrangements are: Škoda Works; Rheinmetall-Borsig AG; Dynamit-Actien-Gesellschaft (vormals Alfred Nobel); and Messrs Vickers-Armstrongs Limited. A number of additional firms are mentioned but not named. The file also contains communications received from the Government of India Central Board of Revenue and the Collector of Customs at Karachi, reporting on the arrival and examination of shipments, the validity of export licences, and the payment of customs dues.
The file includes dividers which give lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the end of the correspondence (folios 2-4).
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- 1 file (517 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 517; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 7/5 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms etc. from foreign sources: Germany'
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- front, front-i, 2r:10v, 12r:21v, 23r:23v, 25r:27v, 29r:42v, 44r:60v, 62r:65v, 67r:67v, 69r:74v, 76r:77v, 80r:80v, 82r:145v, 149r:160v, 162r:169v, 171r:174v, 176r:205r, 206r:248v, 250r:254v, 256r:334v, 336r:357v, 359r:370v, 372r:378v, 380r:390v, 392r:394v, 396r:398v, 400r:418v, 420r:420v, 422r:428v, 430r:431v, 433r:443v, 445r:451v, 453r:456v, 458r:462v, 465r:465v, 468r:474v, 476r:481v, 484r:496v, 498r:517v, back
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