The Indonesian question has been the subject of daily press
comments and reports.

2. The principal points made concerning the Security Council
discussions include the following:

'Anglo-American majority has acted hypocritically in verbally
condemning Dutch action while being unwilling to express that
condemnation in resolution; the Good Offices Committee has been a
screen, and even a mouthpiece of American aims (the Australian
part in the Good Offices Committee has not been mentioned either
for censure or approval); the Dutch began their police action at
American instigation; in abstaining in order to defeat the Soviet
and associated resolutions directing a withdrawal of Dutch forces
beyond the Republican territory, the majority revealed their real
sympathy.'

3. No doubt in order to reconcile Soviet condemnation of the
police action with modified enthusiasm for the Republic, which
after all had resisted a Communist rising, the suggestion is
trailed that there were pro-Dutch traitors in the Republic, and
Hatta's personal negotiations with the Netherlands Ministers are
linked with this. American supply of arms to the Dutch and use of
American arms and equipment in Indonesia are also stressed.

4. Generally, comment has received much more space than
operational details. The main points of progress of police action
seem to have been reported. Considerable space devoted to reports
of protests and actions such as denial of air and shipping
facilities to the Dutch.