1 Dispatched on 19 August, it reported that the tone of the
mainstream Dutch press was becoming sharper and tending to
advocate a resumption of military operations in Indonesia.

2 A sign here indicates 'mutilated'.

3 Presumably the offer of Australian-American arbitration (see
Document 255).

4 The memorandum handed to the United Kingdom Ambassador in The
Hague on 20 August contended that the Security Council's call for
a cessation of hostilities had had an effect widely at variance
with its intention; that rather than preventing further bloodshed
and disorder, it had created a situation in which elements of the
Republican armed forces were able to terrorise the inhabitants of
Indonesia at will. The Netherlands Government considered this
situation to be 'intolerable' and sought any constructive and
practical suggestions the Government of the United Kingdom cared
to make. In cabling the text of the memorandum to the Australian
Government on 25 August, Addison commented that it was possible
the Dutch memorandum was not a genuine appeal for suggestions, but
rather pan of a preliminary campaign to prepare other countries
for, and to justify, a possible denunciation by the Netherlands
Government of the 'cease-fire'.