Our 24. [1]

At the request of the Committee of Good Offices we agreed to make
available a team of military assistants to work with the Committee
on the implementation of the truce agreement. The Australian party
is still at Darwin awaiting Dutch permission to enter Java. Unless
the Committee obtains Dutch consent within next 48 hours we shall
have to consider withdrawing our offer to send any more observers
and return the party to Melbourne. It will be clear that we were
for our part fully prepared to fall in with the Committee's
request.