Further our 194. [1]

1. British Minister at Washington has advised Australian
Ambassador that United States reaction to proposal was definitely
discouraging on the. grounds that joint intervention to secure
truce or joint offer of arbitration would be unacceptable to Dutch
and, in fact, Dutch had already advised State Department that they
would resent either action. [2]

2. Do these circumstances in any way change your previous view
regarding reference to Security Council? It should be emphasised
in this connection that greatest caution will be taken by us to
draw attention to matter in objective way seeking quasi-judicial
settlement and appointment of Commission of Enquiry and avoiding
unnecessary accusations and counter accusations. Mr. Beasley will
have already pointed out that such action by us is consistent with
the attitude we have always adopted in matters raised in the
Security Council.