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Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain' [555r] (1116/1146)
The record is made up of 1 volume (568 folios). It was created in 2 Jan 1930-19 Feb 1935. 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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ammunition into tribal territory is by belne able to bring
home to the ^ghan Government themselves the ultimate
responsibility for all arms and aramunitioaa found there.
Inoluentally it is in the interest of the Afghan Government,
whatever they may ao on their own account, to prevent
IeaJcage througli the negligejice or dishonesty of theiu
officials and they have in the past welcomed, and even
suggested, strict adherence to the procedure of letter II.
9* a.1 though this procedure is well known to the
Afghan Government and should be well known to their
representatives abroad* applications for export licences
may still be received from time to time, without the
necessary notification having already been made by the
Afghan Government. It is therefore desirable that working
rules should be adopted for dealing with them. The details
of these as agreed upon between the Departments concerned
tire given in appendix Ho*3.
10. These rules must, however, be Interpreted
in the light of the following considerations; firstly, in
communicating their decisions to the Government of India
and His lia^esty f s Minister at Aabul His Majesty’s
Government have reserved the right to waive prior
notification at .Kabul when .vfghan diplomatists desire to
send or take arms to Afghanistan for their personal use*
For tills there are special reasons# The difi iculties
of interfering with diplomatic privilege are considerable
and His Majesty’s Government cannot ordinarily prevent
a departing foreign diplomatist from taking with him his
private property, whether this consists oi rifles or
anything else. The same principle applies strictly speaking
to his passage through India, especially if he is returning
ev ery
from ills post, icoordingly, rhil*effort will oe made to
reduce to a minimum the movement of arms under the
frui ,« of diplomatic privilege ana while the worhin t . rules
indicate
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The volume contains correspondence regarding the purchase by the Afghan Government of arms, ammunition and explosives from a number of sources, including the War Office and British and French firms.
It includes communications between British officials (HM Minister in Kabul and the Foreign Office) and the Afghan Foreign Ministry and Afghan legations to Paris and London, regarding: requests to purchase and transport materials; negotiations over customs dues and transport costs; requests for the recommendation of arms firms; and the quality of materials supplied by private companies.
Folios 552-567 consist of a memo titled 'Applications for the Export of Arms and Munitions to Afghanistan', providing details of the procedures to be followed, and a copy of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty (1921).
The file also contains correspondence between British and Indian officials (the War Office, the Board of Trade, 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, the Government of India Political Department, the Collector of Customs at Karachi) and a number of British firms, regarding: informal requests for permission to sell or transport munitions to the Afghan Government; applications for export licences; concerns over the quality and source of munitions; and details of alleged attempts by a German firm to supply arms, in possible violation of Article 170 of the Treaty of Versailles. The firms include: Messrs A Fleming; Gray, Dawes & Company; Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company; Imperial Chemical Industries Limited; and Machine Tools (India) Limited. The correspondence also includes information on the involvement of the French firm L'Office Générale de l'Air, and its dealings with Messrs A Fleming.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folios 4-5).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (568 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 570; 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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- Title
- Coll 7/4 'Afghanistan: purchase of arms from Great Britain'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:8v, 11r:18v, 20r:22v, 24r:30v, 32r:40v, 43r:46v, 48r:59v, 64r:64v, 66r:87v, 89r:91v, 93r:96v, 99r:110v, 112r:127v, 129r:162v, 164r:173v, 177r:181v, 183r:184v, 186r:191v, 193r:213v, 215r:217v, 219r:219v, 221r:226v, 230r:232v, 234r:240v, 242r:257v, 259r:266v, 268r:276v, 278r:281v, 283r:285v, 288r:289v, 291r:305v, 308r:314v, 316r:321v, 323r:332v, 335r:336v, 341r:350v, 353r:355v, 360r:366v, 368r:377v, 379r:383v, 385r:385v, 387r:408v, 410r:410v, 412r:420v, 423r:441v, 443r:445v, 447r:499v, 501r:502v, 502ar:502av, 503r:514v, 517r:518v, 520r:529v, 531r:558v, 560r:569v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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