1. Please report action taken in respect of personal message to
Sjahrir. [1]

2. Please follow up and inform Sjahrir that we have heard that it
is intended by some other powers to offer their good offices [2]
and we would be pleased in any such attempt at conciliation to
assume an active part.

3. Van Mook should not be informed of this specific offer but
should be informed that, if any good could be served, we would be
glad to participate in any attempt at conciliation in relation to
the present dispute with the Indonesian Republic. We are pleased
that the immediate problem on shipping from Australia is being
solved. So much has been achieved by his patient negotiations
that, in our view, it would be unthinkable to allow negotiations
to terminate over questions such as the amalgamation of a police
force which can most easily be done once an interim government has
been set up and mutual confidence between the two parties has been
re-established. Our relationships with certain of the Republican
Representatives are friendly and cordial and we believe we could
make a positive contribution to an ultimate solution if we could
be assured that the Dutch authorities will continue to endeavour
to find a peaceful settlement and failing that will seek
arbitration in the spirit of the United Nations Charter.