| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1896 - 616 pages
...(1836), the Cabinet impressed upon him that the time was ripe for interference in Afghan affairs, ' either to prevent the extension of Persian dominion...the impending encroachments of Russian influence.' Our interest in Afghanistan was here, we believe, suggested in a State paper for the first time. Since... | |
| Sir Auckland Colvin - Colonial administrators - 1895 - 246 pages
...be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. ' Such an interference might doubtless be requisite, either to prevent the extension...timely barrier against the impending encroachments of Eussian influence. ' We shall transmit to Mr. McNeill a copy of this despatch for his information and... | |
| Henry Morris - Governors - 1896 - 186 pages
...would be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. Such an interference might doubtless be requisite, either to prevent the extension...the impending encroachments of Russian influence." The Governor-General was requested to give to this matter his immediate and most earnest attention.... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1896 - 632 pages
...India (1836), the Cabinet impressed upon him that the time was ripe for interference in Afghan affairs, 'either to prevent the extension of Persian dominion...the impending encroachments of Russian influence.' Our interest in Afghanistan was here, we believe, suggested in a State paper for the first time. Since... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 866 pages
...on his arrival in .Persia, that the time has arrived at which it would be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. Such an interference...the impending encroachments of Russian influence.' ' That unhappy dispatch, the product of Lord Palmerston's fantastic fears, was the foundation of Lord... | |
| Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...on his arrival in Persia, that the time has arrived at which it would be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. Such an interference...the impending encroachments of Russian influence.' i That unhappy dispatch, the product of Lord Palmerston's fantastic fears, was the foundation of Lord... | |
| Nikshoy C. Chatterji - Africa, North - 1973 - 492 pages
...was authorized to adopt any measure because "the time has arrived at which it would be to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. ..such an...the impending encroachments of Russian influence." These quotations do not need any elucidation. From the time when Nadir Shah's empire broke up and Afghanistan... | |
| Martin Ewans - History - 2004 - 160 pages
...could be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. Such an interference might doubtless be requisite, either to prevent the extension...the impending encroachments of Russian influence. We shall transmit to Mr McNeill a copy of this dispatch for his information and guidance, and you may... | |
| G. S. Chhabra - India - 2005 - 710 pages
...we confide to your discreation. The time has arrived at which it would be right for you to interfere decidedly in the affairs of Afghanistan. Such an interference would doubtless be requisite, whether to prevent the extension of Persian domination to that quarter, or to raise a timely barrier... | |
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