My telegram 14th June D No. 525, Paragraph 5. [1]

INDONESIA

The Commissioner-General (Professor Schermerhorn) has informed the
United Kingdom Consul-General, Batavia, that he has now
reluctantly come round to the view held by the other Dutch
officials at Batavia and The Hague that the Republic's reply is
unacceptable and that no practical course remains but a limited
use of force.

2. Seeing that the Netherlands Government were due on 16th June to
receive and consider in Cabinet their Commission-General's report,
we again strongly impressed upon the Dutch through the United
Kingdom Ambassador at The Hague that the use of force would be
deplorable and certain to cause strong public feeling in the
United Kingdom that an agreed solution does not appear impossible
and that we advise them at once to hold a round-table Conference
in Java. We have instructed the United Kingdom Ambassador
Washington to approach Mr. Marshall and enquire if the United
States would be prepared to join with us in privately making a
joint offer of good offices to the Netherlands Government and the
Indonesian Republic in an endeavour to bring the parties round a
table.

3. The United States Consul-General at Batavia (see my telegram
9th June D.511 [2] Paragraph 2) did not visit Djokjakarta as his
instructions did not arrive before the Indonesian reply was sent.