501.BC Indonesia/10–148: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Batavia1
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465. Usgoc 155. Counselor Neth Emb informed Dept Oct 1, p. m., that (a) Neth Govt is instructing Neth Del Batavia it accepts Cochran proposals as basis negotiations with same reservations attached by Rep to its acceptance, (b) Neth Govt will adopt as conciliatory attitude as possible toward Rep’s 3 conditions precedent to resumption negotiations (hospital, diplomatic immunity, expulsion Rep families) in return for which Neth Govt expects Rep Govt assure full implementation truce agreement (suppression infiltration, sabotage, guerrilla activities, opium smuggling) Neth Govt confident foregoing can be accomplished within 3 days, (c) Neth Del will ask Cochran submit his proposals to GOC as working paper but will request Cochran include by whatever procedural means are possible Neth Govt’s counterproposals as part of discussion of working paper.
Dept gratified Neth acceptance Cochran proposals as basis negotiations and believes Neth Govt’s requests in (b) and (c) eminently reasonable.
- Repeated as 1407 to Brussels, 234 to Canberra, 487 to The Hague, 3831 to London, and Gadel 111 to Paris.↩