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177 Critchley to Department of External Affairs

Cablegram K132 BATAVIA, 15 June 1948, 10.12 p.m.

SECRET

Immediately on my return from Djokjakarta Monday evening Dubois
and I received a letter from Van Mook in the following terms:-

(1) He does not share our hope that our working paper [1] might
prove useful in any conversation between Hatta and himself.

(2) Neither the Committee nor individual members of the Committee
should make pronouncements except at the request of both parties.

(3) Documents and especially confidential documents emanating from
individual members of the Good Offices Committee cannot be
included in report of the Committee as such.

(4) On instructions from his Government neither the Netherlands
Delegation nor himself can see their way to take the paper into
consideration. [2]

1 Document 173.

2 The full text of Van Mook's letter to Critchley on 14 June is
given in United Nations, Security Council Official Records, Third
Year, Supplement for December 1948, p.49.


[AA:A1838, 403/2/2/2, iv]
Last Updated: 11 September 2013
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