Cablegram 95 CANBERRA, 19 April 1948, 2.35 p.m.
SECRET
Your K102.
Your account of arrival at Djojakarta confirms our impressions
from press and radio reports that while local demonstration may
have got a little out of hand (as Republicans appear to have
admitted) it did not justify stiff Dutch reaction. Committee
should lose no opportunity of urging Netherlands Authorities to
take a realistic view of incidents of this sort and of reminding
them that they will gain no advantage from holding up negotiations
on technicalities.
Suggested minority report on Bantam seems satisfactory.
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