501.BC Indonesia/1–648: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Batavia
14. For Graham from Rusk No. 46. Dept eager your proposals (urtel 84 Jan 6) receive support of AusDel and BelDel. Dutch have been requested through Neth Emb Washington to secure Van Zeeland’s support. Since we are apprehensive lest partisanship of AusDel may mislead Indonesians into adopting unwise or intransigent attitude, we are considering making informal representations Canberra stating reasons for Sec approval your proposals and concluding “Dept confident that FonOff shares Dept’s deep concern that the Dutch-Indonesian dispute be settled promptly in a just and practical manner. Therefore, if FonOff agrees with Dept estimate of Dr. Graham’s proposal, Dept should appreciate FonOff communicating to Dr. Kirby its approval of that proposal and requesting his energetic support to the end that at the earliest possible moment a solution based on these principles be offered to and accepted by both Dutch and Indonesians as representing the unanimous recommendation of the GOC.” [Rusk.]