Office of the Historian

501.BC Indonesia/7–2148: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Batavia1

secret
Washington, July 23, 1948—noon.

340. Usgoc 122. Dept considers reference controversial matters to SC (last sentence final para Gocus 339 Jul 21) highly undesirable because SC discussion such matters could seriously prejudice success of negotiations before GOC which Dept expects will be renewed on full scale upon Cochran’s arrival Aug 9. Endeavor therefore postpone report to SC until Cochran’s arrival.2 Scott will arrive Aug 3 with full explanation.

Marshall
  1. Repeated as telegram 336 to The Hague.↩
  2. For two telegrams to the Security Council from the GOC on July 23 and 24, see SC, 3rd yr., Suppl. (July), pp. 89, 90. These were reported in telegrams 642, July 25 (Gocus 342), and 643, July 25 (Gocus 343), from Batavia.↩