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Coll 5/62 ‘India-Kabul Route: Question of establishment of an air service between India and Kabul’ [269r] (539/677)
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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20.20 hours, 6th March, 1941.
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Addressed to Secretary of State for Indn.a,
repeated to Kabul No.87.
Your telegram No,2267, itarch 2nd. Air service
to Kabul.
2. We considered fully the point taken in the
first part of paragraph No.2 of your telegram before
recommending positive action. In our view
re-establishment or continued suspension of Lufthansa
service to Afghanistan will not be affected by action
or inaction on our part. If the Germans consider
service of sufficient political and/or commercial
value, if they can spare planes and personneljbr it
and if the 3 r can make the neoes iar .' intermediate
arrangements with Russia or Iran they will notify
re-establishment. In the light of current Afghan
policy we see no reason to expect that the Afghan
Govt. (? would) listen to any representation from us
against it*
5. Since,therefore, negative attitude is in our
(? group omitted) uniikely to produce results we
strongly urge that we should not sacrifice the
advantages of taking the initiative.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (336 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2024
- Title
- Coll 5/62 ‘India-Kabul Route: Question of establishment of an air service between India and Kabul’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 12r:268v, 269ar:269av, 269r:337v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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