Office of the Historian

862.20290H/16: Telegram

The Minister in Afghanistan (Engert) to the Secretary of State

Kabul, July 30, 1943—10 a.m.
[Received August 2—5:27 p.m.]

154. Referring to paragraph 2 of my telegram 138, July 8, 9 p.m., Afghan Foreign Minister has informed British Chargé d’Affaires that the Italian Government has decided to withdraw its First Secretary of Legation in Kabul and that the German Government is recalling two of its employees who had been implicated in intrigues. Afghan Government is requesting the British for safe conducts.

Engert