601.8990D/3–2652: Telegram
The Ambassador in Afghanistan ( Merrell ) to the Department of State 1
406. PriMin 2 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 Shah 4 is coming to Kabul as Pak Amb 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”.
- This telegram was repeated for information to London and Karachi.↩
- Shah Mahmud Ghazi.↩
- Reference is to the U.S. initiative of Nov. 6, 1950. See footnote 4, supra .↩
- Col. A. S. B. Shah.↩