MOST IMMEDIATE

Please inform the Indian Government that we are glad to see that
the Indian Government has carried out its proposed action and
referred the matter under Article 35. [1]Our action is not
inconsistent with this and, in fact, if action under Article 39
fails it will be essential to fall back on Article 35. We took
care to time our action so that Australia and India would be
acting more or less simultaneously and for that reason we delayed
several hours. We shall keep the Indian Government closely
informed of developments and we shall instruct our representatives
at New York to keep in touch with anyone there whom the Indian
Government might nominate to represent.