501.BC Indonesia/11–1948: Telegram
The Consul General at Batavia (Livengood) to the Secretary of State
1017. Gocus 450. Following excerpt from official communiqué dated November 19 reporting statement Royal Commissioner in Pasundan reopening Bandung Conference this date:
“Netherlands States General have made it possible for government to introduce the interim arrangements before January 1. In doing so the States General complied with general wishes at consultations at Hague. Government is of opinion that they should second this. It is partly for this reason that immediately after this decision of States General, they have appointed a high representative of Kingdom whose arrival foreshadows conclusion of era of Governors General and beginning of new period in very near future.
We have now entered phase of constructive final world for which effectuation of United States Indonesia is only waiting.
[Page 495]If Republic, too, as result of an—unfortunately not yet realized—agreement which is acceptable to all parties would join in side by side with territories represented here, the Netherlands Government would greatly rejoice.
As far as furtherance this possibility would require any changes in drafted interim arrangement, government trusts that territories here represented will be found willing to hold necessary consultations provided these changes concern items against which neither you nor government have essential objections.”
Signed Cochran.