501.BC Indonesia/3–2149
Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs (Rusk) to the Secretary of State 1
We have just been informed by Mr. Ross (USUN) that seven members of the Security Council are agreed on the attached statement which the President of the Security Council might send to the United Nations Commission for Indonesia as the sense of the Council on the way in which we should proceed on the Indonesian case.2 This suggestion will be made by the Canadian and it is expected that the President of the Council would adopt this statement without the use of a formal resolution. Senator Austin expects to say very briefly that we believe this is a useful way to proceed and seems to represent the sense of the Council.
So far as we now know, the only Dutch objection to this text is that they would like to substitute “terms and conditions for” in place of “the manner in which” under (a) in the attached statement. That change might in fact be made in New York, but I understand that many members of the Council seem to object to it at this stage.
You will also be interested in the report that Mr. Chauvel, French Representative on the Security Council, recommended to the French Government that they urge the Dutch to accept the view of the Council on the Djog Jakarta point and that Chauvel has been informed that the French Ambassador in The Hague has been so instructed.