501.BC Indonesia/5–3148: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Batavia
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233. Usgoc 102. Neth Emb informed Dept May 30 Neth Govt considers continuance present negotiations useless unless and until satisfactory understanding can be reached with Repub regarding foreign relations during interim period. Neth Govt does not consider Repub’s statements to date satisfactory this respect. For example, although Repub press release May 29 (which Du Bois handed Vredenburch prior latter’s departure from Jogja) characterizes Soviet announcement regarding exchange consular reps as unilateral act on part of USSR, Neth Govt does not consider that press release offsets statements made by Roem before GOC on May 28. The Hague particularly concerned with Roem’s statement that date to effect that Repub emphatically repudiates any understanding which would restrict its right to conduct its foreign relations. The Hague also concerned that Roem’s May 28 statement interpreted his previous undertakings regarding Repub’s intention not to extend scope of foreign relations as meaning that Repub would not enter “any new relations other or more than those which had been established or were under way”.
Dept queried Neth Emb whether The Hague had given Embassy any indication as to what steps Neth Govt would take in event negotiations were discontinued. Embassy had no information on this.
In view possibility Neth Govt may consider itself compelled discontinue present negotiations, Dept hopes you can find way during next few days obtain from Repub authorities satisfactory assurances that Repub will live up to its obligations under first of six additional principles.
Sent Batavia as no. 233; rptd The Hague as no. 219.