501.BC Indonesia/1–1849
Memorandum of Telephone Conversation, by the Acting Chief of the Division of United Nations Political Affairs (Bancroft)
Scott1 called to bring me up to date on the latest developments after Mr. Rusk’s conversation with Dr. Jessup. He said they had a meeting with Norway and China and had gone over the resolution in detail agreeing on certain drafting changes. The principal change was to provide that the Commission in making its recommendations should take into account the economic well-being of the population of Indonesia. In general, Mr. Scott said that drafting changes were such as to be more palatable to the French point of view and to the Dutch.
Scott reported that they plan to talk to the Cubans this afternoon to go over the resolution and have a meeting set up with the United Kingdom and Canada jointly. Thereafter if there was time today, or if not, early tomorrow morning they were going to go over the resolution with the Egyptian.
Scott also reported that after deBeus2 had brought in the 9-page Dutch memorandum,3 Scott had a chance to talk to him further about the working paper. He told deBeus that we were interested in knowing exactly what parts of the resolution the Dutch objected to and pointed out that we were proceeding on a basis whereby we had not introduced a resolution in the Council, but were using the device of a working paper in order to get the suggestions of the Council members and of the Dutch. Scott said that apparently deBeus reported this conversation to Helb in Washington because a little later Helb called him from Washington and said that he would like to come to New [Page 170] York to discuss the working paper with him. Scott suggested that this might mean that the Dutch point of view was changing slightly and becoming less intransigent.
Scott reported that pursuant to Rusk’s conversation with Jessup they were going to talk to McNaughton about the possibility of postponing Wednesday’s meeting. He said that there was a good chance of this although China had indicated that they did not believe that the meeting should be postponed beyond Thursday because of the conference in New Delhi.
Noyes4 called me later in the afternoon to say that they were sending down by telegram tonight the modifications in the resolution agreed upon with Norway and China this morning and would report on the British and Canadian reactions. He specifically raised the question whether the treatment of the Cochran plan in paragraph (3) of the resolution (NY Tel. #565) was satisfactory to Mr. Cochran.