We have received no reports of the Security Council, not even the
United States resolution. [1] It would be helpful if we were kept
informed. Now that the Dutch have flatly rejected the United
States proposals and demonstrated that they have no intention of
handing over sovereignty for years to come which is, of course,
obvious from the expenditure in man-power and resources they have
been prepared to make to hold position, perhaps the United States
can be persuaded to take more effective unilateral action than
merely terminating Netherlands East Indies orders. N.E.I.

deliveries to Holland orders should be the next step.