My telegram HAG 200. [1] Indonesia.

Memorandum opens with reference to Netherlands Government
Communication [2] of the 11th December to the Good Offices
Committee. It goes on to cite the efforts of the Netherlands
Government since August 17th 1945 to come to terms with the
Indonesian Republic and the latter's alleged failure to implement
the Linggadjati agreement and the Renville principles. It claims
increasing critical conditions in Indonesia resulting from
'determined efforts made by organisations and individuals acting
under direct or indirect responsibility of the Republican
Government' to impede the political, social and economic
organisation of territories outside de facto Republic control.

2. Instructions to the Crown Representative referred to in my
immediately preceding telegram are next described and the
memorandum continues with a reference to the efforts of some
friendly powers to induce the Republic to change its attitude and
to Hatta's 'personal desire which the Netherlands Government had
never doubted, to make further efforts to reconcile the
Netherlands and the Republic point of view'. However, as 'binding
declaration' sought by the Netherlands Government in respect of
certain essential points in Hatta's letter [3] was not forthcoming
and the text of this letter was in conflict with official
Republican statement regarding the basic issues in the dispute the
Netherlands Government impression that Hatta's conciliatory views
were his own and not necessarily those of his Government, had only
been confirmed. Moreover, the announced departure of Soekarno and
six of his Ministers for India and the fact that the Netherlands
Government had received information that no reply could be
expected had 'placed the Netherlands Government in a position
where no intervention on the part of International organisations
or of friendly powers can be of further assistance and where it
has no other course but to carry out on the basis of its
undiminished responsibility for the state of affairs in Indonesia
those measures which are indispensable to the creation of
conditions which will enable Indonesia to take its place among
other nations of the world as a Sovereign and independent Nation,
freely linked with the Netherlands in a Netherlands-Indonesian
Union'.

3. The memorandum concludes by declaring that the Netherlands
Government will not go back on any of its past pledges in regard
to the future of Indonesia but that 'it will not permit extremist
or Communist groups to prevent the realisation of the aspirations
of the Indonesian population' and expresses the hope that all
friendly nations will understand and support this policy.