Many thanks your K.2. [1] I have sent a personal message to
Officer at The Hague [2] including point in paragraph 11, and also
requests to London and Washington [3], and at all three posts
appropriate pressure should be applied.

2. Development reported in your paragraph 6 is encouraging, but,
at the same time, it would seem to me that in this or in any other
matter the Committee should not accept conditions imposed by the
Dutch. This is a usual technique and on this basis there would in
fact be no withdrawals for many months, if at all, as it is always
possible to find one or another condition has not been fulfilled.

On the record the Dutch have made the offer and that is all that
would be achieved. We have had similar experiences over shipping,
and I would suggest that the question before the Dutch is whether
to withdraw to 4th August positions or not to, and the conditions
would be only those which the Committee itself would state. I
would think at this stage a time limit on withdrawal should be set
and an instruction as such should be conveyed to both parties to
give effect to withdrawal by that date, regardless of the formal
difficulties being put forward regarding demarcation lines etc.,
which, in the absence of agreement between the two parties, can be
determined by the military advisers of the Committee.

3. I draw your attention to Netherlands Indies Government
Information Service publication September, 1947, called, 'The
Indonesian Problem: Facts and Factors'. [4] The publication of
atrocity pictures, many of which are of Chinese origin, can do no
good to the Dutch or any other cause at this juncture, and will
only bring retaliation by publication of equally bad or good facts
and factors from the other side. We have a few

pictures on our files of Australians shot at by Dutch. [5] While
the report might be in part factually correct, the United Nations
in due course will, no doubt, prepare a factual report and,
meanwhile, it is hoped that further publications of this kind will
not be print, an be regarded as falling within the scope of
provocative acts which the Committee has barred. [6]