Office of the Historian

856e.00/9–1748: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Netherlands 1

secret
Washington, September 17, 1948—5 p. m.

450. Dept agrees suggestions Embtel 606, Sep 152 re desirability Brit support US proposals for Indonesian settlement and has conferred rep Brit Emb here this end. Brit now have copy US Del’s proposals. Continue maintain close contact Brit colleagues. However, Brits have agreed not reveal to Dutch fact that they learned from us existence or substance US proposals. This answers Embtel 614, Sep 16.2

Belg Govt and Austral Govt have also been approached both here and in respective capitals to enlist their support.

Marshall
  1. Repeated as telegram 429 to Batavia.↩
  2. Not printed.↩
  3. Not printed.↩