Office of the Historian

811.42790H/64: Telegram

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

Kabul, March 17, 1943—10 a.m.
[Received March 18—10:13 p.m.]

58. There is a possibility that if we could immediately furnish a first-class irrigation engineer and four surveyors we might be able to induce the Afghan Government to get rid of the Japanese now in the service of the Ministry of Public Works and referred to in paragraph 7 of my telegram 74, September 15, 1942.68 These Japanese are now again employed in the Kandahar Province. See also telegram 44, February 21, 1943.69

Please telegraph whether such American engineers could be supplied.

Engert
  1. Not printed.↩
  2. Not printed; this telegram referred to Japanese propaganda activities in Afghanistan (894.20290H/4).↩