501.BC Indonesia/3–1249: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consulate General at Batavia 1
163. Usgoc 333. In reply Neth request to US for response to Stikker’s letter to Bevin re conditions on which restoration Repub Govt to Jogjakarta might become acceptable to Neth Govt, following memo handed Neth Min Wash Mar 12.
[Here follows text of memorandum printed supra.]
In verbal explanation, Dept officers stated that Dept obviously could not now make firm commitment its position re details involved restoration Jogjakarta, which in our view properly matters for negotiation, mentioning specifically police function in Jogjakarta and status Repub guerrillas during preliminary conference and round table conference. On other hand. Dept officers expressed view that restoration Repub Govt to Jogjakarta should not involve concentration large forces TNI that city, and pointed out responsibilities devolving upon Repub leaders after restoration, as already emphasized to them by Cochran.
- Repeated as 212 to The Hague, 290 to Brussels, and 831 to London, “for info, at your discretion, of respective Foreign Offices”.↩