Cablegram unnumbered BATAVIA, [31 January 1949], 4.55 p.m.
SECRET
January 31. Commission forwarded first report [1] to Security
Council today. Text included first four sentences of my telegram
[2] January 29 and concluded as follows.
'Commission stressed to Acting Chairman importance of taking
preliminary steps in compliance with resolution [3] without delay.
Acting Chairman promised to inform Commission as soon as he
received instructions from his Government. At sixteen hundred
hours 31st January no further information had been received by
Commission except that matter was under discussion by Netherlands
Cabinet.'
[AA : A1838, 403/3/1/1, xxi]