Office of the Historian

251. Memorandum From the Secretary of State to the Deputy Assistant Secretaries of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Jones) and International Organization Affairs (Walmsley)1

Washington, August 21, 1957.

RE

  • West Irian

I think we should carefully reconsider our UN policy. It seems to me that in view of the pro-Communist trend of Sukarno, the fact that their own government is now extra-constitutional, and the unrest in their own country—it is almost absurd to be neutral toward the extending of the Indonesian authority to a new area.

JFD2
  1. Source: Department of State, PPS Files: Lot 67 D 548, Indonesia. Secret. Drafted by Dulles. The source text is a copy of the memorandum sent to the Policy Planning Staff.↩
  2. Initialed for Secretary Dulles by William B. Macomber, Jr., the Secretary’s Special Assistant.↩