Office of the Historian

601.8990D/3–2652: Telegram

The Ambassador in Afghanistan (Merrell) to the Department of State1

secret
Kabul, March 26, 1952—3 p.m.

406. PriMin2 informed me this morning that an Afghan Amb wld not be sent to Karachi until the Pak Govt had accepted the fourth point of the November 7 proposal.3 He seemed pleased however that Shah4 is coming to Kabul as PakAmb and appeared to hope that some good might come of the appt.

When I told him that while in Wash I had been much disappointed to learn of a recrudescence of Afghan propaganda against Pak he admitted this had occurred but said that “slowly slowly it wld die out”.

Merrell
  1. This telegram was repeated for information to London and Karachi.↩
  2. Shah Mahmud Ghazi.↩
  3. Reference is to the U.S. initiative of Nov. 6, 1950. See footnote 4, supra.↩
  4. Col. A. S. B. Shah.↩