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395 Plimsoll to Hodgson [1]

Telegram unnumbered SS DOMINION MONARCH, 20 December 1948

MOST IMMEDIATE

I presume you received message of yesterday. [2] Today's wireless
reports on Indonesia seem to stamp offensive as flagrantly
aggressive open defiance of United Nations and resembling methods
of Hitler. In circumstances Minister regards action as crucial
test of Security Council. He assumes that Hodgson is in Paris and
that if not Hood is acting. Immediate report required.

1 Plimsoll transmitted this cablegram to the Australian High
Commission in London with instructions to telephone the contents
to whomever was representing Australia at the Security Council in
Paris.

2 Document 393.


[AA:A3318/1, L48/3/1/16]
Last Updated: 11 September 2013
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