{"book":"adl0973","page":277,"text":"have proved valuable to the\nNation.\nMy beloved people ! I was much im-\nسخنان بچه‌گان و ساده pressed when I heard the prattle\nof interested parties. My policy\nin Afghanistan is without any\nsecret or mystery. My policy\nin Afghanistan is open policy.\nI wish to make everything\nclear to you, so that you may\nbe acquainted with every cir-\ncumstances and may know your\nown affairs.\nWhen I reached Kabul and you my\ncountrymen pressed and impor-\ntuned me to be the chosen King\nof Afghanistan, the Foreign\nMinistry immediately announced\nthe event to the whole world.\nIn reply to the proclamation the\nForeign Ministries of all the\nfriendly States sent congratula-\ntions and recognition of the pre-\nsent Government and acknow-\nledgement and announcement\non their part of the same. The\n\n210","chars":778,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0973/00277.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":315,"title":"Progressive Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0973/277","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0973/canvas/277","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0973/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0973_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}