790.00/4–2054
Memorandum of Conversation, by the Deputy Director of the Office of Philippine and Southeast Asian Affairs (Day)
Subject:
- Call of Dr. Zain
Participants:
- Dr. Zairin Zain, Minister of Indonesian Embassy
- Mr. Ibnu Suwongso Hamimzar, First Secretary of Indonesian Embassy
- PSA—Henry B. Day
Dr. Zain called to reiterate a point he had already made that the Indonesian Government would be interested in learning whether (a) it was anticipated that the Netherlands participate in the proposed organization for united action in Southeast Asia and (b) whether the Netherlands Ambassador had made on his own initiative any démarche indicating interest on the part of the Netherlands in participating in united action.
In reply to Dr. Zain I said that I could not recall at the moment whether the Netherlands Ambassador had had a talk with the Secretary, Under Secretary or Mr. Robertson, and that I was not certain whether the Netherlands Ambassador had taken the initiative but that I understood that the Netherlands Ambassador had been [Page 431] given the same information about the Secretary’s thinking on united action as had been given to the representatives of other Governments. I mentioned that the Secretary had outlined his views on united action to a number of representatives of different countries. I added that I understood that the Secretary’s views, as indicated in the communiqués issued in London and Paris, envisaged collective defense within the framework of the United Nations and that if such an arrangement were achieved it would1 include countries other than the group to which the Secretary had first made his proposal known.
- A handwritten marginal note to Day by Drumright reads: “‘could’ would be better word.”↩