Cablegram 644 CANBERRA, 23 October 1947
IMMEDIATE SECRET
Your UN.1008, Security 509. [1] Indonesia.
According to United Nations broadcast monitored here resolution
circulated by United States contains, in addition to two points
you have mentioned, a third point requesting the Consular
Commission, Batavia, to make its services available for
arbitration purposes. Please confirm urgently.
2. United States resolution would seem to be attempt to sidestep
findings of Consular Commission. It is rather late to observe, as
United States is reported to have done, that two parties have not
yet discussed interpretation of cease-fire order, and United
States should not be given this opportunity to set aside clear
findings of body set up by Security Council just because they are
not acceptable to United States. Moreover Consular Commission has
completed task for which it was constituted. Its perpetuation
would result in its jurisdiction overlapping that of Three Power
Committee. Security Council should act on lines suggested in
paragraph 3 of our 612 [2], which would aim at ending immediate
disorders and would leave Three Power Committee's hands free to
concentrate on fundamental issues rather than interpretation and
implementation of cease-fire order. Kirby suggests that
Committee's work on finding solution would not be helped by its
having to assume this responsibility which should be taken by
Security Council.
[AA:A1838/274, 854/10/4, iii]