501.BC Indonesia/5–549: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in Australia 1
64. Urtel 88, May 5. Far from pessimism expounded by Burton, tels from Batavia indicate very substantial progress has been made in negots between Dutch and Repubs and it would appear agreement has been reached between them with respect to majority points raised Austral secret tel to CRO London and Austral mission NY, Batavia, etc. You may use foregoing in replying to Burton adding that in view [Page 406] progress which has apparently been made at Batavia it is difficult to understand criticism of Cochran who Dept considers has been consistently impartial, and also implication US policy towards Indonesia has changed. In this connection you may state US has unswervingly pursued objectives of SC Res Jan 28 and SC directive Mar 23 which in essence stress desirability parties to dispute returning to negot status and you may point out that prelim negots at Batavia have kept in forefront SC directive Mar 23 which states negot substantive matters at Hague fully consonant with SC Res Jan 28.
Urinfo only Batavia’s 410 May 5 re progress of negots has been repeated to you.
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- Repeated as 398 to The Hague, 1562 to London, 339 to New Delhi, 60 to Ottawa, 97 to Rangoon, 53 to Wellington, 263 to Batavia, and 256 to New York (USUN).↩