656D.9431/73: Telegram
The Consul General at Batavia (Foote) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 18—9:12 p.m.]
61. The Governor General of the Netherlands Indies tonight received the Netherlands and the Japanese delegations to receive the Japanese reply to the Netherlands memorandum of June 6, reported in my telegram No. 54, June 7, 6 p.m.47 Mr. Yoshizawa made a last attempt to persuade the Netherlands delegation to reconsider the Netherlands attitude. This was definitely refused whereupon the Japanese delegation accepted the Netherlands viewpoint. The Japanese delegation then said that if the Netherlands Indies would permit Japan to import the commodities mentioned in my telegram No. 56,48 Japan would import 100,000 tons of Java sugar. The following joint communiqué was then issued:
“Both the Netherlands and the Japanese delegations greatly regret that the economic negotiations, which have been conducted between them, have unfortunately come to no satisfactory result. It is needless, however, to add that the discontinuation of the present negotiations will lead to no change of the normal relations between the Netherlands Indies and Japan.”
Complete details are not available tonight but they will be telegraphed as soon as possible.49
Repeated to Tokyo.
- Not printed.↩
- Dated June 9, 11 a.m., not printed.↩
- In telegram No. 68, June 25, 4 p.m., the Consul General at Batavia reported that, with the exception of arrangements made between the Japanese importers and the local oil interests, no agreement of any sort resulted from the Netherland-Japanese negotiations (756D.94/170).↩