Ext 5821/43 'General Hurley's mission to Persia and China' [‎14r] (27/84)

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You my be interested to see the enclosed account
by ^uire of Hurley's visit to Kabul.
The Afghans too: the opportunity to ask for ar&ia»
and you will see that Hurley did not tell squire what
answer he &: ve the Afghans on this point.
It seems that the Afghan re ueet may have been put
' to hin ton by Hurley, and you wight like to let the
J..1.: • know € this possibility, since we should clearly
wish to be consulted if there was any question of
oupi lying united totes war material to Afghanistan.
The question Cniae up in an inconclusive way last year,
ayvfc r nd our telenrraa No^ 29Z Saving af the diet May gives our
general attitude to it. Your re^ly (N o. - 61 vin af.
3 3aa th e 1 ^h Jhmm ) showed that there was no Isiedt>te follow-
and the question seems to have been dormant ever since*'
But Hurley may have brought it to life again.
Since the above was drafted we have seen another
letter f oti ' quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. to Caroe. of which X enclose a co^y.
It appears that the nfghans 1 requests for military
equipment were only of a general nature, and that Hurley
was non-comittal. Nevertheless it is just poeoiblc th t
the question ay crop up in Washington.