1. Many thanks for your 34. [1] I think that the Arab position has
been to help India. Egypt is a strong supporter of Australia, and
its work in United Nations and congratulated you on statement
appearing in morning press. He nominated us to Drafting Committee.

There has been no mention by them of Palestine throughout the
private sessions.

2. Drafting Committee has completed draft of first resolution
covering recommendations to the Council of action to be taken by
it. It is wholly in accord with recommendations we have already
made to the Council. Will cable full text this evening. You will
realise that it has to come before the full Committee but it will
be sufficiently near final product for you to instruct upon.

3. The full Committee this morning discussed the enforcement and
continuing
organis-ation. We will draft them this afternoon and again there
will be nothing we cannot immediately accept. I will cable
tentative draft late tonight.

4. If you can see your way, on the basis of these drafts, to
instruct regarding final resolutions, subject to no amendments in
substance it would be certain to be helpful if you could state in
Canberra and I could state at conference conclusion I had received
your instructions to support outright resolutions.

5. Your suggestions arrived just prior to the meeting and all will
be included in draft; such is the atmosphere of the Conference and
Australia's general standing on Indonesia and in the United
Nations there is no danger of regional enforcement outside the
Security Council.

6. Nehru and officials are showing much less reserve towards us
and all are coming to accept us without undue suspicion. Your
statements have helped and it makes me all the more keen on a
visit here by you on your way to the United Kingdom to get a firm
understanding on the setting up of a regional organisation.

7. On this I am not so sure it would [not] [2] be a good move to
accept wider regional organisation because this group seems to be
able to keep Arabs in order. The United States Ambassador here
agrees the metropolitan powers of the United Kingdom, United
States of America, French, Dutch should not be included especially
as this conference has proved the ability of independent states in
the area to act wisely and correctly.

8. I must say how much it has meant to us to feel that you are
watching developments and assisting by public statements and by
suggestions. A lot was at stake to begin with, and I think I
probably exceeded the instructions which I would have been acting
on without your return.

9. This conference is so far most amazing for good common sense
and honest purpose amongst the middle and small powers. I have
never known an international committee to be so subject to
reasoned argument and so little influenced by political or
emotional irrelevancies. It is complete answer to criticism and
suggest when you announce the resolutions you rub it in. You will
have noticed that the Drafting Committee is composed of the four
Dominions.