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Central Asia : code 97, files 595-1372 (to paper 5393).

Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan: Afghanistan from the Civil War to World War Two, 1923-1949 Available online

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Format:
Book
Government document
Manuscript
Contributor:
National Archives (Great Britain), owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Great Britain. Foreign Office--Archives.
Great Britain.
Afghanistan--Foreign relations.
Afghanistan.
Afghanistan--History--20th century--Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Production:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1936.
Summary:
Trade between India and Afghanistan. Transit of goods to Afghanistan. Railway from Chaman to Kandahar. Proposal to build a railway from Herat to Kandahar, linking Indian and Russian rail networks. Coal in Afghanistan. Russian attempts to 'capture' the export trade of Afghanistan. Soviet desire to create "conditions favourable to revolution".
Notes:
AM Reference: FO 371/20320
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