Security Council.

See our en clair report. [1]

1. Council is at last becoming really impatient with the Dutch and
members are slowly facing up to the ineffectiveness of its
activities to date. The question of taking effective action now is
complicated by the break from 30th December to 6th January and the
Dutch having avoided decisive action in the Council before this
break have won a major victory, as it is doubtful what can now be
salvaged from the wreck of the Republic.

2. The Americans saw me this morning. While they are unable to say
so publicly at this stage, the complete cessation of E.R.P.

assistance to the Dutch, unless their attitude changes, is
becoming more than a possibility. They hope that they will be able
to restrain the Dutch by diplomatic action during the Council
break and, in fact, seem to hope for more from diplomatic channels
than from the Council itself. Although they are in part
blameworthy, the Council's record over the past week makes such a
view understandable. In any event I understand that the United
States would have supported the Ukraine's withdrawal charter [2]
had not United Kingdom intervened to the contrary, which makes
inconsistency of latter even more disappointing. The United
Kingdom's wholly negative attitude has continued and been
underlined in today's debate.