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Coll 5/62 ‘India-Kabul Route: Question of establishment of an air service between India and Kabul’ [‎39r] (77/677)

The record is made up of 1 file (336 folios). It was created in 7 Jun 1938-1 Mar 1948. It was written in English. 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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RLE COPY
Secretary, ,
External Department (Mr. Harf*isoii) y
In continuation of my memor^4um o f,
I transfer herewith the attached letter TWTT'the Office
9i4f 29th Slay
of the United Kingdcm High Commissioner in India, reference
25/47/0/5 dated 27th May, in which it is requested that a^
copy of the letter of 22nd May should be sent to the Foreign
Office for transmission to Tehran. I assume that some sort
of acknowledgement will be sent to Mr. Anderson.

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The file contains papers related to a number of unsuccessful attempts to establish civil aviation services between Afghanistan and India. The file includes related policy discussion over the use of Lend-Lease aircraft supplied by the United States, as a result of wartime proposals. It also includes intelligence report of rival negotiations between the Government of Afghanistan and competing powers: Germany, the Soviet Union (USSR), and the United States.

The file also discusses India's post-war civil aviation plans: see folios 122-131. An Indian Delegation sent to Kabul in May 1947 is the predominant topic between folios 7-58: see folios 15-24 for a detailed report on this mission. Folio 318v contains a list of Germans employed in Kabul in 1938.

The main correspondents are as follows: HM Minister at Kabul (William Kerr Fraser-Tytler and Giles Frederick Squire), officials of the Foreign Office, officials of 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. , and representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.

The file does not include any papers for the years 1940 and 1942.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (336 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 337; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in 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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