Foreign Relations of the United States, 1949, The Far East and Australasia, Volume VII, Part 1

501.BC Indonesia/9–2949: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Netherlands

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Washington, September 29, 1949—10 a. m.

834. Eyes only for Cochran from Butterworth. In fulfillment my promise to keep you serviced, I think I shd let you know before weekend Indo-Dutch conference (Hicus 40¹) not inconsiderable importance, which has not been dimmed by Burma experience, is attached here to incorporation specific safeguards against confiscatory taxation, etc., for foreign including Amer investments USI as you envisaged in Cochran Plan. Our thought from this distance is that ability to influence Indos to take fixed policy of enlightened character is now. [Butterworth.]

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1. Telegram 849, September 28, not printed.